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How to Recycle Halloween Electronics and Battery-Powered Props
As Halloween ends, you’re left with all your decorations. Americans spend an estimated $4.2 billion on Halloween decorations every year, and that threatens to become a lot of waste when the festivities end.Don’t let your animatronic and light-up Halloween items end up in the…
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Eco-Friendly Halloween Party Decorations: Spooky Without the Waste
One of the scariest things about Halloween is that it produces a massive amount of waste in a single day. One UK study found that petroleum-based plastic is in 83% of Halloween costumes. Polyester makes up 69% of the materials in them. It leads to about 2,204 tons of waste each…
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Our Complete Guide to Donating and Recycling Halloween Candy
Halloween is almost here, and that means an influx of sugary treats. Whether your children go to a local trunk-or-treat or go door to door in your neighborhood, local shopping mall, or district, they’ll come home with a massive candy haul.Each year, approximately 600 million…
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The Environmental Cost of Online Shopping
Online shopping is incredibly convenient. Instead of spending hours each weekend going from store to store to buy groceries, household supplies, and any apparel or pet supplies your family needs, you can do it in a few clicks. Everything will arrive at your home or office within…
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What Happens When the Wrong Items Go into Your Recycling Bin?
Every week, millions of homeowners and renters collect everything with a recycling symbol or made of paper, glass, or metal. As they roll their blue bins to the curb or carry recyclables to a collection station, they believe they’re protecting the environment. The sad truth is…
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How to Recycle Old School Supplies
Backpacks are packed. Bus schedules are posted on the fridge. Kids are back to school across the U.S. As you started organizing what you had left from last year and what you needed to buy, how many old school supplies stacked up?My kids have been out of school and college for…
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What Happens to AI Hardware When It Becomes Obsolete?
The U.S. already had 3,000 data centers at the start of 2026. Another 1,500 are under construction. The majority of them are in Texas and Virginia and are often clustered in more rural areas. The buildings they’re housed in last decades, but the AI hardware inside has a much…
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The Hidden Waste Behind Free Returns
Life’s become so much simpler in some ways following the pandemic. Instead of spending hours running errands each weekend or on a day off, you’re done in minutes. Simply turn on your computer or grab a device and order groceries, household supplies, clothing, and personal…
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How to Responsibly Dispose of Home Improvement Leftovers
Home renovations always leave contractors or homeowners with a lot of leftover materials. From carpeting scraps to partial cans of paint, those materials aren’t meant for the landfill. According to the EPA, construction and demolition debris reached 600 million tons in 2018. Of…
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Paper or Plastic? The Right Way to Dispose of Amazon and USPS Padded Mailers
Estimates are that Amazon delivers around 23 million packages every day worldwide. The United States Postal Service’s postmaster general says mail carriers delivered around 1.7 billion packages for Amazon in 2025. It’s a lot.Some of those shipments are in cardboard boxes or the…