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Our Weird Obsession With Keeping Our Trash Bins Clean

Our Weird Obsession With Keeping Our Trash Bins Clean

SF Bay Area households can cover San Francisco entirely in a thin layer of plastic liner bags every 7 months. A couple years ago, I finally caught up to the reality that lining trash bins with plastics bags is not only a relatively useless endeavor, but also harmful to the environment.

SF Zero Waste Update: If You Know How to Sort, You Can Recycle Soft Plastics

SF Zero Waste Update: If You Know How to Sort, You Can Recycle Soft Plastics

Recology recently made a wonderful update to their San Francisco recycling program concerning those pesky soft (soft = crumples in your hand) plastics that end up everywhere.

How 6 Eyelets and 50ft of String Can Save You $37 + 175KWh Every Year

How 6 Eyelets and 50ft of String Can Save You $37 + 175KWh Every Year

About 3 years ago, I bought a pack of eyelets and a spool of string with the simple goal of hanging a clothesline in my storage room to air dry my clothes.

The Weekday (Vege)||(Pesce) tarian

The Weekday (Vege)||(Pesce) tarian

This post IS NOT about promoting vegetarianism, veganism, raw vegansism, or eating more healthy. This post IS about how to make your impact on long term sustainable food consumption in a way that you can...sustain...long term. If eating more healthy is a ::ahem:: 'healthy' ::ahem:: side effect of

The Big Blue Bin

The Big Blue Bin

Apparently that warm and fuzzy feeling I get when filling up my blue recycling bin with every type of paper, plastic, and metal I could find was only a feeling. A few years ago, I watched a TED talk [https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_biddle] on the progress of