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Teach Your Children Well: School Recycling

It’s school time. If your student is not already overwhelmed with sports, clubs, and music programs, then starting or helping with a school recycling program would be a terrific extra-curricular, educational activity. Recycling teaches kids important lessons about the environmental impact of everyday life. Incorporating recycling into school life helps kids think about their role…

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America Recycles Day Survey Says: Americans Feel They’re Not Doing Enough for the Environment

A new national survey released on America Recycles Day finds most Americans feeling less than confident that they’re doing enough to help the environment—and many say they don’t really know how. Only 37 percent of Americans in the survey say they’re “doing enough for the environment,” and less than half (46 percent) say they are…

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Bin It – The New Recycling Game for the iPhone and iPad

Recycling the plastic bottles and bags you use is an important step that everyone can feel good about doing. And who says it can’t be fun too? Plastics Make it Possible® is happy to present Bin It, a fun and addictive new game for the iPhone and iPad that challenges you to recycle in a…

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Plastics Make it Possible® Partners with Woolly Pocket to Help Schools Create Gardens Made with Recycled Plastics

Plastics Make it Possible® has partnered with Woolly Pocket to provide schools throughout the country with space-saving gardens made with recycled plastic bottles. The self-contained garden pockets help students learn valuable lessons in gardening, nutrition, and how plastics are recycled into new products. Woolly Pocket, a company based in Los Angeles, creates flexible, breathable gardening…

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America Recycles Day: Get Inspired to Recycle More of Your Everyday Plastics!

November 15 has been America Recycles Day since 1997, the only nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting recycling in the U.S. Plastics Make it Possible® encourages you to get educated …motivated … and inspired to recycle more of your everyday plastics! Not sure what to recycle? Plastics Make it Possible® offers the following tips for…

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Publix Guest Post: A Sustainable Store, Inside and Out

By: Maria Brous, Director of Media and Community Relations for Publix Super Markets, Inc. As an environmentally conscious consumer, it’s important to feel good about where you shop.  At Publix, we are committed to the responsible use of our environmental resources and to providing opportunities for our customers to do their part. Our continued success…

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Make recycling a lifetime habit

As a graduate student in the early 70’s I needed to work to pay the bills, so I channeled my enthusiasm for the environment, along with a little business sense, into starting my own company – Resource Recycling. What started as a simple recycling company grew quickly into a recycling consulting and publishing firm.

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Loll Designs Furniture with Eco-Cred

Not many high-end furniture companies start with a skateboard, but Loll Designs isn’t your typical furniture manufacturer. Established by the founders of TrueRide, a skateboard park building and design company, Loll Designs was established when TrueRide founders wanted to create a sustainable alternative to landfilling their construction waste.

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The Latest in Eco Fashion: MATT & NAT

MATT & NAT is leading the way in eco-fashion with its line of fashionable purses and accessories that use fabric made from recycled plastic bottles. They are proud to point out that every product they make contains at least one recycled element and the linings of their bags are made, on average, from 21 recycled…

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Keep America Beautiful declares every day “America Recycles Day”

At Keep America Beautiful our main goals are to educate individuals, companies and government about the importance of litter prevention, waste reduction and recycling, and to support beautification and community greening projects.

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