Steward's Blog
Do the Scrunch Test for Eco-Friendly Gift Wrap
Posted by Carol Brown on
Holiday gift wrap CAN avoid the landfill, but only if you follow the recycling rules! Learn about them here, and get tips for making your Christmas gifts look great and still be earth-friendly.
Try a Shampoo Bar. Just. Freaking. Try. One.
Posted by Carol Brown on
Why is it so freaking hard to get the people in my family to try a shampoo bar?! "Try this weird cheese I got at a street fair." Sure, no problem! "Try on these smelly shoes I bought at the thrift shop." Okay... "Let's try that Black Diamond slope around on the back side of the mountain!" Let's go! But slip in "Try this new shampoo bar" and the fun screeches to a halt. It's not a liquid? I can't squirt it? WHAT???!!! Aside from the new delivery method, shampoo in bar form has a myriad of advantages over liquid...
The Wishful Recycler
Posted by Carol Brown on
For most of my adult life, I have been a "wishful recycler." I threw pretty much everything in the recycle bin, even things I wasn't sure could be recycled, because I was hopeful that the good people who sort it all out would figure it out for me. Turns out, I was WRONG. This is called "contaminating the recycling stream," and it causes your entire "wishful" bin to go straight to the landfill.