30 Tips To Make Your Bathroom More Eco Friendly

Today, please welcome our guest blogger, Marina Chernyak. Enjoy her tips and hopefully, you will utilize them!

We use more chemicals and waste more water in our bathrooms than in any other place in our homes! It’s time to wake up and do something to make your bathrooms more eco friendly, in the interests of our planet. Here are 30 tips that you can implement at your home to ensure your bathroom is more eco friendly.

Dispose Medications And Cosmetics

1.Throwing old medicines into your garbage is not a good idea as animals and young kids may eat them by mistake. Don’t flush medicines either, as these will find their way into ecosystems and eventually into drinking water. Always hand over used medications at pharmacy recyclers and ask them to dispose of it properly. (more…)

The Ability of Light to Produce Electrons, and Thus Electricity, Has Been Known For Over 100 Years.

At the Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Sandia National Laboratories, scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. (more…)

‘Robbing Peter To Pay Paul’ Is Pointless In Recycling

It defeats the green purpose to engage in recycling a product utilizing copious amounts of fresh water, a dwindling natural resource. But you have to wash plastic to recycle it.  Processing plants use up to 100,000 gallons of water a day, mostly to wash food residue and chemicals off containers before they can be shredded into plastic flakes and returned to industry for use in hundreds of applications. (more…)

Hit The Green Deck

VAST Enterprises, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota has broke the green barrier in the traditional mentality that landscape pavers must be made from concrete or clay. Made from a highly engineered material comprised of up to 95% recycled materials, their Composite Pavers are the first socially responsible paver alternatives in the industry, a highly engineered material designed to maximize strength, durability and appearance. It is manufactured in a scrap-free process that produces zero toxic or harmful emissions. VAST is the first composite paver manufacturer with a closed-loop recycling program which redirects recovered pavers back into manufacturing new products. Greatly exceeding the LEED performance requirements in several areas. (more…)

A Novel Idea – A Sustainable Fashion Company

Most would equate, sustainable fashion to an oxy-moron. But Finisterre is just that, a sustainable fashion company formed almost eight years ago, and based in Cornwall UK. They have been recognized for their eco-achievements with the ISPO Eco Design Award, Observer Ethical Business Award, The Surfers Path Green Wave Award and Cornwall Sustainability Awards.

The Finisterre philosophy: Less raw materials, less production effects, less transport, and in the end less environmental footprint left by us as a business and you as a consumer. Together we are stronger. Making products you need that will last a long time. This is done using the best fabrics available that cause the least impact on the environment. The reality is that we cannot exist without some environmental impact, but our aim is to minimize this impact as much as possible. As long as our actions speak louder than words, we get closer to what it is that we believe in. (more…)

It Takes A Village ….

The EPA (Enviromental Protection Agency), has released the 2007 recycling report. It takes two years for the EPA to gather the data and crunch the numbers.

Last year Forced Green reported the 2006 numbers with hopes of bettering those very good numbers in the 2007 report. (more…)

Please welcome back, our guest writer Caroline Smith!

Give Your Furniture a Green Makeover with Slipcovers

By Caroline Smith of GetSlipcovers.com

Being green is all about saving energy, reducing waste, recycling and reusing. When it comes to old sofas and chairs, using slipcovers is a green way to give them a new lease of life and keep them out of landfill. I don’t think there’s any excuse to throw away old furniture just because you don’t like the look of the upholstery. Whether it’s the color or pattern that isn’t to your taste, or the fabric is worn or stained, as long as the seat is comfortable to sit on, it still has plenty of life left in it. (more…)