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If you're like most consumers, you have piles of stuff waiting to be shredded -- old medical records, credit card and bank statements and investment records.
On April 16, consumers will be able to go to a Better Business Bureau-sponsored site in their area to get their documents shredded. Go to...
How to Save Holiday Receipts, Warranties and Find Lost Manuals
5:00PM 12/27/2010
While the garbage bags full of wrapping paper, and possibly some manuals, are already on the curb, we want to help you make sure that you never lose another receipt, warranty or manual from your holiday shopping haul ever again.
How? The first step is to sign up for an Evernote account if you...
Office Workers Dumping Own Trash to Cut Costs
6:45AM 11/01/2010
Thousands of office workers are taking out their own trash, as employers seek to save money and boost recycling efforts.
In Texas, 20,000 state workers now haul their own garbage and recyclables to common receptacles, The Wall Street Journal reported. In the past, that was a duty for the night...
Has our recyclable waste become one of the U.S.'s biggest exports? It's definitely starting to seem that way. The U.S. Department of Commerce says U.S. companies exported $6.8 billion worth of waste, scrap paper and paperboard in 2009, up from $5.2 billion in 2005. But not all of those materials are actually getting recycled, creating a virtual wasteland in third-world countries.
Starbucks Is Trashing Its Green Image
9:00AM 4/22/2010
No, Seattle-based Starbucks won't be adopting a comprehensive recycling plan -- only 11% of shareholders voted for that. The global coffee shop chain, which has been spending much of its marketing money on promoting its "Shared Planet" initiatives lately, believes it's doing enough.
Reducing garbage not much of a boon to the budget
1:00PM 2/08/2010
For the past two years, I've been chasing down a crazy goal: to reduce my family's trash enough that I could call the company which collects our garbage and tell it that, instead of picking up our one 32-gallon can every week, we'd need the service only once a month. Even though we've always been...
Turning dirty diapers into . . . bicycle helmets?
1:00PM 11/17/2009
Consider the disposable diaper. It's part engineering marvel, a mechanism that takes one of the most foul side effects of parenthood and absorbs it into a small, manageable, plastic-wrapped package. But it's also part environmental catastrophe.
The average baby makes nearly 6,000 diapers dirty...
Inconvenient family living: Reduce your trash
10:00AM 10/20/2009
This is the first in a series of columns on how to help your family live greener -- and cheaper in the bargain. Check back each week for a new topic.
Is it possible to live more lightly on the Earth after starting a family? Yes it is. Is it easy to go greener with kids? Well... let's just call it...
McDonald's: Over 20 billion served...then trashed?
3:30PM 1/15/2009
Keep Britain Tidy, a British anti-trash campaign run by a prominent environmental group, just released a survey of the garbage it found strewn all over 10 of England's city streets, including London. Its headliner finding: McDonald's accounts for 29% of the fast-food trash left across the country....
I pride myself on separating my paper, glass, plastic into separate recycling bins. But now after reading that recycling centers nationwide are being hit by recession and closing their doors, I don't know what to do with all my trash. As consumer desire for new homes, cars, electronics and...
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