Four Simple Ways to Teach Your Kids to Recycle

If you’ve ever wondered why recycling matters, consider this: Americans generate a lot of trash. More than 200 million tons of garbage every year, to be exact. That’s enough waste to fill a football stadium from top to bottom. Twice a day. The benefits of recycling seem straightforward. The practice reduces waste sent to landfills, […]

How to Safely Dispose of Old Gadgets and Electronics

Most tech devices, such as smartphones and computers, aren’t built to last forever. The average lifespan of an Apple iPhone, iPad, or Mac is about four years and three months. We’re in a perpetual cycle of increasingly relying on our devices and replacing them once we upgrade or the device conks out. Most people, however, […]

What Is Zero Waste?

Different communities vary in how they define zero waste and what achieving that looks like for them. At the heart of zero waste though, a global movement that began in the 21st century, is the shared goal of decreasing the total amount of waste created, whether that waste ends up in landfills, the side of […]

How To Plan a Sustainable, Green Wedding

Wedding receptions are exciting, romantic and… wasteful? Even the most environmentally-conscious couple might find themselves stumped when it comes to planning a sustainable celebration. Weddings are notoriously wasteful, with the average nuptial producing 400 to 600 lbs of waste on average. In the U.S. alone, with roughly 2 million weddings every year, that creates 800 […]