"Waste"

Waste / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Lifestyle and environment

Fridge organization - how to optimize fridges to reduce food waste (and why it matters)

...waste. Instead, two very different measures describe the amount of food loss and waste in the United States: EPA estimates: 2010 was selected as a baseline for the US at 218.9 pounds of food waste per person sent for disposal. The 2030 FLW reduction goal aims to reduce food waste going to landfills by 50% to 109.4 pou...

Lifestyle and environment

Tru Earth Eco-Strip laundry soap reviewed as a liquid laundry detergent alternative

...waste. Quoting the Tru-Earth website again, they've apparently done some more extensive calculations and concluded: "There are 30 billion loads of laundry done each year. If everyone switched to Eco-Strips we could eliminate 1 billion plastic jugs, and save truck fuel and CO2 equivalent to taking 27 million cars off th...

Recycling and composting

Why recycling is important, and how to recycle correctly at home

...waste, composting, disposing of construction waste and other easy lifestyle changes to reduce your environmental footprint in these pages : How to sort and dispose of compost and household waste Use your kitchen waste as compost to grow food in a backyard lasagna garden How to dispose of construction waste resp...