recycling
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‘Plow’ Your Leaves With Cardboard
Raking leaves is a pain in the arse. It’s time-consuming, wet, cold, and can even trigger your allergies. You have to do it, but so tedious is this task that people have come up with a variety of hacks and devices to help you get it done more efficiently. You can scoop leaves up with…
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You Can Recycle Your Easter Egg Foil if You Follow This Rule
Easter eggs are delicious but they come with a lot of wrappings. Here’s how you can responsibly recycle your Easter egg foil.
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How to Keep Your Old Clothing Out of the Landfill
About once a year, I purge my closets of all my unwanted clothes, whether it’s the jeans that no longer fit, the T-shirts I’ve worn to shreds, or the weird-arse dress that seemed like a good idea at the time but ended up being an exercise in medieval torture. It’s tempting to save some of…
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Your Cotton Tote Bags Are Totally Fine
Last week, the New York Times published an article by Grace Cook that got half of Twitter talking about “the cotton tote crisis.” At the centre of this article — and the multiple tweets promoting it — is an alarming statistic: “An organic cotton tote needs to be used 20,000 times to offset its overall…