Posts Tagged ‘Landfills’

Go Green with Stainless Steel Water Bottles

Do your part for the environment by using stainless steel water bottles instead of plastic when you take water with you. Plastic water bottles can last up to 700 years in our landfills, but by using a stainless steel water bottle, you'll be saving yourself money and helping to keep a clean environment at the same time.


Go GREEN this Black Friday!

Thrifty’s favorite color is green – NOT black! Hint…hint..hint… This ”Black Friday,” when you shop thrift-style, you are sending a message with every purchase! Shopping thrift means that factories don’t make so much stuff, trucks don’t transport so much stuff, less stuff gets pumped into the atmosphere, and less stuff gets dumped into landfills.


Top Ten Tips for Going Green This Holiday Season

People know Goodwill for retail stores, but what many don't know is that Goodwill has an entrepreneurial business model of collecting and selling donated goods. They help communities recycle usable items in environmentally sound ways, and prevent items from piling up in local landfills.


Enough Angst For the Trees Already

Environmentalists are pointed in the wrong direction. This article is about Design for X, environment, Ink, landfills, maintenance, paper, paper decomposes, paper waste, plastic, Recyclable materials, recycling, tree angst, trees are sustainable resource, virgin fibers, waste management. They think it is trees and paper products creating a danger to our world. This article is about [...] Related Articles: 10 Easy Ways to Go Green Almost everyone has heard the phrase "go green." If you...


Sprint Expands Environmental Leadership with New Initiatives and Debut of Eco-Friendly Samsung Reclaim

Today, sprint has announced the release of a literally “GREEN” phone that besides it’s color is really quite green to the environment, the Eco-Friendly Samsung Reclaim.  I think it is great that Sprint has started this initiative to produce phones that are biodegradable, as per the amount of mobile devices out there, it is staggering to think how many of them will end up in landfills, as “long-term” junk.   Hopefully this will become a new trend and that other manufacturers will follow suite! 
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