Recycling Credit Cards

After the Holidays, it is time to think about proper disposal of unwanted/used Gift cards! 75 million pounds of polyvinyl chloride (PVC, a toxic substance) material from plastic cards enters America’s waste stream every year.
Credit cards are so small, they might not seem worth all this trouble. But in 2006, the United States Census Bureau determined that there were nearly 1.5 billion credit cards in use in the U.S. A stack of all those credit cards would reach more than 70 miles into space — and be almost as tall as 13 Mount Everests. If this number of credit cards were thrown away every three years, the stack of credit cards would reach almost 43 Everests high after a decade.
You can mail your used/unwanted plastic cards to:

Earthworks c/o Halprin Ind.
25840 Miles Road
Bedford, OH 44146

Feel free to send us your environmental tips and we will place them here!

Spring into Natural Lawn Care

1) Aerate
2) Overseed
3) Sharpen Mower Blades
4) Avoid applying "Weed and Feed" products - CHOOSE ORGANIC FERTILILZER & WEED NATURALLY USING THE RIGHT TOOL
5) Water 1" per week.
6) Mow at least 3" high.

18 Ideas To Reuse Expired Credit Cards

http://www.green-talk.com/2008/03/13/18-ideas-to-reuse-expired-credit-cards/

Great Book Suggestion!
The World We Made - A Book by Jonathon Porritt

A word from the author:"It's clear to me that we're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be — and that we've still got time to deliver it."  Jonathon Porritt

Part history, part personal memoir, this story charts the key events, technology breakthroughs and lifestyle revolutions that make the world what it is mid-century.
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