Here are some other reasons why you need to keep your waste container clean and how to go about doing it.
Everyday it seems that businesses, institutions and organizations are setting zero waste or zero waste to landfill goals. If that is the case with your organization, you may be adding composting (or organics) to your breadth of waste that you are collecting. Labeling and color coding containers is an easy way to help direct people [Read More...]
Safely dispose of pharmaceutical and medication waste in your pharmaceutical waste containers.
Food processors are powerful kitchen appliances that can be used for a wide variety of meals, but they can also be tough to clean. And the lids can be especially troublesome because of all their nooks and crannies. This will make cleanup much easier.
More than half of fast food consumers are willing to embrace reusable and returnable containers as they're concerned about pollution and waste issues. And most, (55%), would have a better opinion of a brand that eliminated styrofoam containers, according to…
Stores across Canada are eliminating plastic bags entirely and encouraging shoppers to go beyond the reusable bag and eliminate packaging waste entirely by bringing their own containers, from Mason jars to Tupperware.
Those carrot tops you’ve lopped off are not garbage. Your snapped-off green-bean stems are not scraps. They are what Thomas McQuillan, sustainability director for Baldor, a specialty foods and produce distributor, calls sparcs - “scraps” spelled backward and pronounced like “sparks.” And sparcs, despite popular assumption, are often just as edible as the rest of the fruit or vegetable.
Instead of saying goodbye to stale cookies, popcorn, cereal and other foods, we put a handful of them to the test to see which food revival methods - oven, microwave, sealed containers and celery (no joke!) - actually work.
Hazardous waste packaging is very important. All HW must be shipped in an UN‐rated container, indicated by a stamp or label on the container.
You probably have an assortment or mishmash of container lids in different sizes. You might also have old wire CD storage rack going to waste (or inexpensively bought at IKEA). Put the two together for easy kitchen drawer organization.