Posts Tagged ‘recycling’
Blippity blip plastic Easter egg
I’m enjoying my Ridwell subscription, it’s quite satisfying to conquer challenging recycling conundrums. One of Ridwell’s programs involves “Featured” pick-ups: a rotating selection of the really oddball and unusual stuff, like plastic Easter eggs right after Easter. I’m still learning my way around the Ridwell protocols: plastic film baffles me, but batteries and thread, I’m…
Read MoreRidwell – It’s HERE!
I have my shiny new Ridwell box, and crisp new Ridwell bags. So let the grand experiment begin. For $10/trip, impromptu each trip: if I show up and you’ve got this big ‘ol bag of batteries, yea, sure, in my car it goes. Or the empty pill bottles. You thought you’d use those bread tags…
Read MoreRidwell service
I’m wrestling with providing Ridwell assistance to my clients. I’d be grateful for your opinion. Ridwell is an AMAZING company which provides a subscription service to help people responsibly dispose of hard-to-recycle items like batteries. I ADORE Ridwell, for everything from its humble Seattle origins, to its conscientious, creative expansions of its capacity and its…
Read MoreStopwell, Ridwell recycling app for your phone
Ridwell, a recycling company which specializes in subscription-service disposal of the hard-to-dispose-of stuff, has a phone app, Stopwell, which helps you identify what something is so you can dispose of it properly. OMIMULTIVERSE IT MAY BE AWESOME. I just took this test photo and Stopwell identified it without blinking. And if it could identify this…
Read MoreLooking for rags in all the wrong places
I’ve just twisted a great song into a pretzel, but I couldn’t resist. H&M, a clothing retailer often cited for contributing to staggering rates of global pollution by producing “fast fashion,” also tries to be a part of the solution. I was excited by that, but then started poking around, and found a compelling rebuttal…
Read MoreThank you Target!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Target!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT STATEMENT IS NOT A PAID ENDORSEMENT. Just gratitude for the little things – I’ve got a few clients who use SodaStream products – NEITHER WAS THAT STATEMENT A PAID ENDORSEMENT – and it is a nuisance and bother to dispose of the canisters. Target participates in Sodastream’s canister exchange program.…
Read MoreJunkyard Planet : Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter is amusing, terrifying, inspiring, infuriating and depressing. Not the book itself, which is wonderful: Minter is an accomplished journalist with a unique understanding of his subject matter – junkyards, scrapyards, recycling, reuse, landfills, trash and garbage, secondhand throughout the world – because he grew…
Read MoreSecondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale by Adam Minter
I’m recycling some of my review of Minter’s first book: Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade to write this review ♥. Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale by Adam Minter is amusing, terrifying, inspiring, infuriating and depressing. Not the book itself, which is wonderful: Minter is an accomplished journalist with a…
Read MoreHard-to-dispose-of stuff – Washington Post article
The Seattle Times “borrowed” this article from The Washington Post and now I’m borrowing it from both of them – fantastic updated look at how to dispose of some hard-to-get-rid-of everyday-awful things we accumulate, like batteries. How to safely discard batteries and other hard-to-dispose-of items The Seattle Times, At Home/Explore July 21, 2021 3:43PM by…
Read MoreThe Ban is Coming, The Ban is Coming
Single-use plastic carryout bags are banned in Washington State as of January 1, 2021 (Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5323). And it’s going to cost us – the legislation requires retailers to charge a fee, until at least December 31, 2025, to anyone who doesn’t bring reusable tools who’ll therefore need temporary. There are reasonable exceptions,…
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