Perhaps the major obstacle to progress for the recycling movement is overcoming confusion surrounding what can be recycled, what should be recycled and where to take it all. Here are three common household items routinely trashed instead saved for reuse.
Recycle Your Blue Jeans, Recycle Your Community’s Blue Jeans
Blue jeans are more of a valuable resource than you may imagine. One option for recycling blue jeans is taking them to a thrift store two or three pairs at a time. There are more groundbreaking options, however, that maximize the potential of old blue jeans. Programs such as Habitat For Humanity take in old blue jeans and repurpose them as insulation for homes. The program will accept any amount of blue jeans.
Collect unwanted jeans from your closet or begin a blue jeans drive in your neighborhood, apartment building, workplace or school. You simply need a box and a description of your mission. Another way people are getting involved with programs repurposing blue jeans is by collecting them for their own DIY insulation projects. What are the advantages of using jeans for insulation? Jeans actually perform better than toxic commercial insulation so common to modern homes, without leaving toxic residue in homes.
Don’t Forget To Recycle Rechargeable Batteries
Programs such as Call2Recycle, which has a national focus, are standing by to recycle your old phone batteries, tool batteries, computer batteries and digital camera batteries. So much technology of the contemporary age relies on rechargeable batteries, so recycling them makes a sizeable positive impact on environmental conservation. The metals and chemical byproducts found in rechargeable batteries should never be sent off to a landfill.
Out of sight means out of mind, but only temporarily. The destruction created by trashing rechargeable batteries returns eventually as a poison for our environment and bodies. Many programs have established drop off points near you where rechargeable batteries can be safely and conveniently discarded for reuse.
Recycling Computer Hardware Is Easy Now
Computers and computer accessories are often overlooked for recycling. Worse, many know there must be a way to recycle their old computer tower or monitor, but assume it will be hard to find a computer recycling program. Innovative programs such as Houston’s STS Electronic Recycling make computer recycling – from laptops to wires – easy and, better yet, free. Remember, all computer hardware is typically accepted by these recycling programs of the digital age. Electronic waste is toxic for the Earth and humans. Stop waste now. Find every bit of computer hardware idling in your closet and hand it over to an electronic recycling program.
Blue jeans, rechargeable batteries and computer hardware should never find their way into the Earth, or its rivers and oceans. It’s so easy today for consumers to reduce their waste with just a little knowledge and effort.
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