Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This past summer I decided to start composting. Benefits of Composting. Before digging into how I convinced them to start composting, I want to give a quick blurb on why composting is important. By composting, I was finally doing something and working toward something to keep creation healthier.

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Compost Composting Work Recycle 185

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 16, 2013

Chances are that at least some of the time you bring your own bagged lunch to work or to school. Sure, there are days when you go out for a nice meal with co-workers or pay for the school lunch on pizza day, but when I think back to my school days I fondly remember those brown paper bags. Washable plates and bowls. Cloth napkins.

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Lunch Lunches Reuse Compost 201

Nicoles Nickels

APRIL 21, 2014

Kids can be recycling pros and turn trash into cash for their schools through a new campaign with snack time favorite Entenmann’s Little Bites to create a fully recyclable lunch! Entenmann’s Little Bites “Recycle…Reuse…Replenish” Fully Recyclable Lunch Tips: Recycle. Have any leftovers from lunch?

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Giveaway Recycle Recycled Recycling 100

Nicoles Nickels

MAY 23, 2015

NestFresh Eggs come from small family farms across the country and are packed into recycled, recyclable, and compostable cartons. We eat eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner (not all in one day, though!), Nicole’s take: My girls are big egg eaters. Like we go through at least 2 dozen a week.

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Giveaway Recycle Recycled Recycling 40

Saving Cents With Sense

MAY 7, 2013

A simple picnic lunch in the park works fine, too. She’s an earth mother fond of baking kale chips and reminding you to save energy, recycle and compost the banana peels. If you think you can handle a 3-course French dinner, by all means put on an apron and aim for a meal deserving of a Michelin Star.

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Flowers and Plants Flowers and Gifts Finds Gifts 75

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 28, 2013

moved from simple dumping on land or sea, to burial, sanitary landfill, feeding to swine, reduction, incineration, and various forms of composting”. A landfill is not like a compost pile, where the purpose is to bury trash in such a way that it will decompose quickly.”. How much trash we generate /recycle. Their conclusion? “So

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Economical Recycle Recycled Recycling 188

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 5, 2012

Glass or metal can last a lifetime should you wish to reuse either one and are better recycling material than plastic is. Cardboard boxes can be used over and over again before needing to be recycled. Shredded paper can be put in compost piles. Many “ broken ” items can be recycled into craft projects to do with your children.

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Home Making Reuse Recycle 229