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Take a visit again to February 2020, when the Earth911 workforce assembed on the microphone to speak about plastic, sustainability, and the actions we are able to all take round the home to cut back, reuse, and recycle. This week, be taught how to recycle disposable contact lenses and create a zero-waste kitchen. We additionally speak by means of the many problems with bottled water in plastic packaging, from the reliance on virgin petroleum assets to micro-plastics in bottled and faucet water. Finally, you’ve in all probability bought a dozen issues this 12 months that got here with a silica gel pack to forestall moisture harm — do you know you should use them to create a potpourri, forestall jewellery from tarnishing, and to guard private paperwork from getting old? We’ve obtained the entire silica gel reuse lowdown.
In Earthling Questions, you requested and we answered: What to do with 1,300 DVD instances? Does Earth911 advocate any workplace paper and kinds or checks firms? And, can VHS tape instances be recycled?
Editor’s Note: this episode initially aired on February 10, 2020.