Believe it or not, there are a variety of ways to transform your garden into an even more “green” space. By choosing the right products, attracting the right critters, and growing your plants and flowers using the most eco-friendly practices, you can turn your yard into a veritable Garden of Eden
If you are a parent, you know how quickly your kids can go through their toys. Once a toy breaks, or when a new toy craze hits the market, it’s out with the old and in with the new. Considering Americans buy more than
$18 billion worth of toys annually, you’re not alone.
As individuals, businesses, and communities, we do not have to wait for the City Council to act to make Portsmouth more sustainable. In addition to reusing shopping bags, recycling, or composting, consider up-cycling unwanted products to make them anew again.
It’s among the top 30 collectors in the Glad Food Storage Brigade, a free national recycling program. Their collection and recycling efforts have helped raise more than $119,000 toward the benefit of nonprofits and schools across the country, while saving plastic containers and wraps from landfills.
K. R. Hanchey Elementary School students earned money and prizes for their school by collecting and recycling drink pouches used at home and in the lunchroom.
More and more consumers are making life choices to become “ethical eaters”. Ethical eaters strive to choose foods that minimize harm and are protective of the environment, consumers, farmers and all those involved in food production and distribution.
Introducing
TerraCycle, a New Jersey based company founded in 2001 by a Princeton University freshman selling organic fertilizer in reused soda bottles.
Cromer Elementary School ’s Recycling Team has reached the second level of TerraCycle and Capri Sun’s Drink Pouch Brigade milestone contest by collecting more than 18,000 drink pouches. The students have earned more than $400 for their school by collecting the drink pouches.
H.L. Johnson Elementary School has earned money and prizes for the school by collecting and recycling the drink pouches used in the lunchroom and at home.
The school recently reached the third level of TerraCycle and Capri Sun’s Drink Pouch Brigade milestone contest by collecting more than 40,000 drink pouches. The students have earned more than $3,000 for their school by collecting the drink pouches.
Are you disgusted by the mats of cigarette butts that gather on sidewalks, street curbs and roadways?
Are you a smoker that feels slightly guilty at flinging that filter out the car window?