Posts tagged recycling
DID YOU KNOW used sneakers can be donated to community organizations or recycled into sports surfaces that are used all over the world?
Aug 18th
Most of us feel that 300 miles per pair is the limit for runners, which means that millions of pairs of sneakers get tossed every year, instead of being reworn or ground down for reuse.
Soles4Souls is an amazing organization that collects shoes and distributes them free of charge to people in need — and their ever-growing number of events and drop off locations makes it easy to donate.
Another option is Nike’s Reuse-A-Shoe program, which collects old, worn-out athletic shoes for recycling. It transforms sneaks into Nike Grind, a material used in creating athletic and playground surfaces as well as select Nike products.
While you’re here, check out Herron Park playground in South Philly to see recycled rubber in use, doing double duty as a safe play surface that is also permeable and helps control stormwater runoff by putting it back into the ground…
Greener, Healthier Play from GreenTreks Network on Vimeo.
DID YOU KNOW banning plastic bags in the UK is expected to be the equivalent of taking 18,000 cars off the road?
Jun 1st
It is estimated that 1 trillion plastic bags are used worldwide every year –- and making them takes around 100 million barrels of oil. Plastic bags take hundreds if not thousands of years to decompose; they litter our oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams; and burning them creates toxic air pollution.
Shouldn’t we all start bringing our own bags when we go shopping?
Learn more at Worldwatch Institute >>
DID YOU KNOW almost every part of a cell phone is recyclable—and so are dozens of products we throw out everyday?
Apr 29th
Our obsessive upgrading of cell phones, computers, television sets, and other electronics, means millions of tons of hazardous materials end up in landfills every year instead of being recycled our reused.
Check out Earth 911 to see what you can recycle — and where.
Did You Know That in the US, We Buy More Than Half a Billion Bottles of Water every week?
Apr 2nd
That’s 500,000,000 bottles!
Bottled water costs about 2,000 times the price of tap water. It doesn’t taste any better, is no safer, and creates a huge amount of waste.
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