You may remember from my recycling plant tour that plastic objects under three inches don’t get recycled because they fall off the conveyer berlt or through the sorting machines. To solve that problem, Aveda is sorting the caps beforehand and sending in loads of just caps. (Thanks for the heads-up, Elisabeth!) Bring your caps to [...]

Christmas has snuck up on me this year, and I’ve had to squeeze all my holiday preparations into just a week. One thing that’s helped me save time (and paper): electronic Christmas cards. I discovered Paperless Post through my friend Lesley. The company mostly does paperless invitations for weddings and the like, but they’ve expanded [...]

On Wednesday I went on a tour of the Casella recycling plant. Cambridge’s recycling director, Randi Mail, is hosting tours before the town switches over to single-stream recycling October 25. Casella is already handling single-stream loads from many towns in Massachusetts, including Boston. It was fascinating to see the elaborate sorting process. First, giant piles [...]

As I mentioned, we’re cleaning out the office in order to make it a more useful writing/study space. Traditionally, it’s been the dumping ground for old things we didn’t want in the rest of the house—furniture, electronics, books, etc. A lot of this stuff is still useful, just not to us. So we’re selling it [...]

On Tuesday I talked about recycling our old cell phones. This came about because of a fall cleaning of our office, and the biggest piece of electronics that we needed to get rid of was our desktop computer. My tech guru, Jason, talks about how he prepared it for reuse. Our computer turned 10 this [...]