Reusable vs Recyclable vs Throwaway
What is the footprint, the lifespan,
the end-of-life of each item that you touch?
SHOPPING
Shopping Bags:
Cloth, recycle content, organic, plastic
Produce Bags:
mesh, plastic
PERSONAL
TOOTHPASTE
- content and containers
WATER BOTTLES: Reusable - metal, plastic BOTTLE BILLS:
11 states
CA CT DE HI IA ME MA MI NY OR VT
COFFEE:
Reusable, throwaway
LUNCH:
Reusable, compostable, Throwaway.
Bring tupperware, your own glass for
sodas
PENS: Recycled,
refillable, throwaway
$$ MONEY:
Dollar coins vs the dollar bill
PAPER
LABELS:
peel and stick, gummed
Plastic Labels on fruit and veggies
Paper plates, tissue paper
CLOTHES:
New Vintage, Garage Sale, Recycling,
Donating
Does it need to go
into the garbage?
Vacuum cleaner bag, Dryer Lint, Hair
Should it go in
the garbage?
Medicine, batteries, CFLs, syringes, E
Waste, Ink jet Cartridges [print in draft mode]
FOOD
Compost, disposal, trash, donate
PACKAGING:
Precut food
Packing material from cardboard to
styrofoam to molded cardboard.
Choose where you
live.
Windows,
Trees, Natives, Rain Barrel
Choose what you
eat.
CSA, www.localharvest.org.
Farmer’s markets, Coops. Food miles?
Stop Junk Mail &
Catalogs:
See: Environmental News on
recycle-guide.com
“A Sorted Affair”
Resources
www.VALCORErecycling.org
www.grist.org
www.terrapass.org
www.freecycle.org
BOOKS
“Exit Strategy,Thinking Outside the Box,” Kate Robin
“Cradle to Cradle” William McDonough
“True Green” McKay and Bonnin
“Farewell My Subaru” by Doug Fine
“Bottlemania” by Elizabeth Royte
“Garbage
Land” by Elizabeth Royte
“Hey Mr. Green” by Bob Schildgen
“Living Like Ed,” Ed Begley, Jr.
“Guide to Sustainable Living,” Ed Begley, Jr.
“Confessions
of a Radical Industrialist,” Ray Anderson
Get INVOLVED
Earth Day is April 22
Local waterway Cleanups
www.productstewardship.net
Buy Recycled page on www.VALCORErecycling.org
Just Ask Jane -
jane@recycle-guide.com
January 30, 2010
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