Disposing Garbage in an Eco Friendly Home

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Hi, I am Nili Nathan, and on behalf of Expert Village, this is my series on greening. Today’s episode is on how to recycle and greening tips for your home. As you can see, I have compiled my recyclables, and I am on my way to my bin, but I am not sure that I have done this correctly, and I could really use an expert. And, here she is, that’s why I called Anne Richmond, Earth 911 to the rescue. Let me help you, looks like you have your hands full. You came just in time, "wow you have been busy collecting all your recyclables, have you visited our website earth911.org ? Yes, I have I have, now I wanted to show you a little bit of what I've done and get some of your input. So Great!! She will be teaching us a lot of things about greening and recycling and some easy things you can do right away in your home. Let’s see what you have, you have all different types of, looks like newsletters, oh wait, don't throw away this, this is a million dollars!! Oh you don't want to lose that. You've got newspapers, which is a commonly used recyclable item, you've got cardboard as well. You've always got lots of that you can put in your recyclables, you've got some undeliverable mail, lets see what else is in here, you have been busy, you must of just had lunch. Generally paper plates unfortunately should not go into your recyclables because of the food residue that will have to go in the garbage. What about this? Should I of washed this out better? You know I wouldn't recommend it, because you’re wasting water but one thing you want to do is look for the recycling arrows, the chasing arrows with the number in the middle. Some programs will accept these; some programs won't, so you have to be careful. Same with beverage bottles made out of plastic and the same with other types of plastic wrap, you have to pay attention to that. Looks like your daughter is growing out of her shoes don’t let her know that I am throwing away her shoes, I would probably recommend donating those to a local thrift store, because somebody would be able to reuse those. That’s a great idea!! Cardboard boxes obviously are great for recycling, so you will have to check with that. Looks like you've got aseptic packaging, so you've got a lot of items that I think are candidates for your program, so I think what we need to do is go check the website and find out what your community will accept, so you can put them in your blue bin. The website does that, yep all you have to do is go to earth911.org put in what you’re trying to recycle or if you are looking for a curbside program listing, GREAT!! , And then put in your city, state, and zip code. All right, let’s go do that.

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