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  • How To Get Stains Out Of Plastic Containers

    If you make as much pasta as I do, you’ll know it’s a struggle to get tomato-based sauces out of your container collection. Many a plastic container has been ruined by the red/orange stains and faint aroma of Napoletana sauce. Fed up with making all my food vaguely pasta-flavoured, I’ve found some tips to get…


  • How To Recycle All Of Your Holiday Garbage

    Ah, the holidays—a time for celebration, family, and garbage. Lots of garbage. Lots of decorative garbage that lasts for up to a month or a day before meeting its end in the trash. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans churned through over five million Christmas trees in 2017 alone. And Earth911 estimates that…


  • How To End The Cycle Of Throwaway Plastic Toys

    It’s everywhere. The cheap kazoo. Strings of Mardi Gras beads. Sticky hands. Crazy straws. Magnifying glasses that just make things look blurry. Off-brand Slinkies. So many frisbees. Mini squirt guns that don’t actually squirt. I don’t buy a lot of plastic crap for my kids, but somehow, it finds its way into my home. The…