I’ve come across a couple of things related to recycling lately that I wanted to share.  First, I was at the garden last weekend planting some tomatoes, basil, and flowers we had bought at local nurseries.  A fellow gardener approached me and asked if she could recycle the plastic containers they had come in.  I hadn’t thought about recycling these before, but she told me that a lot of nurseries will recycle them for you, and if you live in the Boulder area, Lafayette Florist has a drop off point for them at their store.  If you don’t live in the area, call around to some of your local nurseries and see if they will recycle them for you.

Second, my friend Amanda let me know that Aveda now has a recycling program to recycled caps that local community recycling won’t take.   They take these caps that usually end up in the trash including “shampoo, water, soda, milk and other beverage bottles, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter.”  The one condition is that the cap has to be rigid and un-bendable, so if you can bend it, they cannot recycle it.  You can drop off your caps at Aveda salons or stores.  They also have a school program, where they work with kids and schools to collect caps and send them to Aveda for recycling.  For more information on the school program see this flyer.

Third, now that the U.S. has made the switch from analog to digital TV you may be wanting to get rid of your old analog television.  Instead of throwing it in a land fill, recycle it.  In 2004 laws were passed in many states requiring manufactures to take back their televisions and recycle them for you.  If your state doesn’t have laws like this there are probably still places to take your TV so it won’t end up in a land fill.  To find a recycler in your area go to http://www.mygreenelectronics.org