Day 284 - Saturday 10/11/08

Today's Haul:

• 1 plastic HDPE 2 enzymatic drain cleaner bottle - recycle
• 1 candy bar wrapper - garbage
• 1 pie crust wrapper - recycle
• 1 cardboard vegan nuggets box - recycle
• 1 plastic vegan nuggets bag - recycle
• 2 lollipop sticks - worms
• 2 lollipop wrappers - garbage

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Day 283 - Friday 10/10/08

Today's Haul:

• 1 sticker from fish monger - garbage
• 1 broken lightbulb - e waste

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Day 282 - Thursday 10/9/08

Today's Haul:

• 1 beer bottle w/top - recycle
• 1 handful edamame shells - worms
• 2 napkins - worms
• 1 starch plate - worms
• 1 corn based "plastic" cup - gonna test this one

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Day 281 - Wednesday 10/8/08

Today's Haul:

• 10 ozs paper - recycle/worms
• 1 glass beer bottle w/top - recycle
• 1 plastic yogurt tub - recycle

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Wanna see the dump?

If you happen to live near LA, here's your chance to tour the largest landfill in the country. Puente Hills Landfill is offering a tour of their landfill facilities, recycling facility, and water reclamation project (which is really amazing) to anyone interested. The tour is on OCT 25th and you can sign up here.

Dave

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Check out Terracycle for recycling options

I was at the store today and my kids saw a Z bar, the junior version of the Clif Bars, and organic food bar that is pretty popular, and while a tad dry, pretty darn tasty to boot.  I'm not a big fan of food bars to begin with, but Clif bars are a cut above inj my opinion as they are Organic and the company actually has their eye on sustainability.  Simply put, they are a rockin company.

So my kids want a bar and they'd been good so i bought them for them.  Now i had recalled something about Clif having a recycling program so now that kids are zonkered I looked them up, and sure enough, they have a program going with Terracycle that they helped replace.

Basically, get in touch with Terracycle via their website and they will send you 4 postage paid mailers.  Fill them with 200 wrappers, send em off, and you're done.  And if that's not cool enough, they will donate .02 to a charity or school of your choice for each wrapper you send in.

On top of that, Terracycle takes Yogurt cups, drink pouches (think capri sun juices), cookie wrappers, and corks.

And if that isn't cool enough, check out this video!  These guys are in their 20s and have created a company that in their own words "makes a product out of garbage".  They decided to start selling worm tea and even turned down a $1 Million prize to do things their own way.

Unreal.

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Day 280 - Tuesday 10/7/08

Today's Haul:

• 2 ripped plastic bag (the dog got em) - garbage
• 1 cd mailer - repurpose
• 2 Cliff bar (z bar) wrappers - recycle
• 1 plastic lightbulb package - recycle
• 1 priority mailer - recycle *
• 1 cardboard cereal box - recycle
• 1 plastic cereal bag - recycle

* I was sent something in a USPS priority mailer (8x10 flat style) and the gentleman who sent it made sure to highlight the Cradle to Cradle certification on the side.  Apparently the USPS has a cradle to cradle certification for their packaging which takes into mind the creation, use, and eventual disposal of the product.  Pretty cool!

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