Tag Archive for dispose

Contact Lens Pollution

A new study shows 14 billion contact lenses flushed down the toilet each year. Since they don’t break down, this is adding to the already-major plastic pollution in oceans and waterways. There isn’t any eco-friendly way to dispose of them yet, but they’re better off in the landfill. Trash them, don’t flush them.

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Eleven (yes, 11) Ways to Get rid of your Christmas Tree

This also works for Hanukkah bushes, of course.

You know you can cut it up and put it by the curb.  Here, from the National Christmas Tree Association, are ten more ways to dispose of it without it’s ending up in the landfill: “Recycling your Tree.”

Leaf 6

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