Recycling News
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
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July 1st, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Man, I wonder where those TVs end up . . . I' ve seen and read some scary news report about electronic waste that ends up in India, China, and other places. Kind of a downer when you try to do the right thing and recycle stuff like that.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:20 pm
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July 1st, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Yea, I think you just have to do research on the place you take them too. I know at least some of the places around here "say " they don't go overseas when they recycle them, but who really knows. I wonder what the manufacturers do with them when they recycle them? Something to look into better…
July 1st, 2009 at 11:25 pm
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July 8th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
I just got back from visiting my Mom in MD and introduced her to your blog. I thought about it b/c I was showing her how she could access her city's recycling website to see what items were allowed in her commingled bins. Fortunately for her, her city's recycling is pretty sweet they take all plastics (1-7) and the caps and lids! Plus plastic grocery bags, not too shabby.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Oh cool, I'm glad you introduced her to it!
That sounds like an awesome recycling program, i can't believe they even let you recycle the lids and caps. That is really great, it's good to hear that their are really good recycling programs out there like that. I was just in Edmond and I read how Oklahoma City or Oklahoma (i don't remember) has one of the worst recycling rates in the country, which I'm not that surprised about but it's still depressing.