In this section, not only do we give you recycling tips (made all the more creative by the absence of curb-side recycling), but we give you tips on how to reduce and reuse what you have...Less is more in most cases! Feel free to contact us if you have more ideas!
Recycle
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Get the Recycling Guide (in PDF)
Tulane has put together a recycling guide for almost everything.
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Sign up for Phoenix Recycling
Phoenix Recycling offers curbside recycling twice a month for a fee of $15. For more information call 504-914-0739, or e-mail
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Bring Recycling to The Green Project
You can recycle your newspapers, cardboard, copper, paper, aluminum, all personal electronic devices (including cell phones) steel cans, latex paint, art supplies and all sorts of building materials. at The Green Project, 2831 Marais St. during business hours: Mon-Sat, 9-5. phone (504) 945-0240
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Check Sierra Club Website for Recycling
Check the Sierra Club website for places to recycle specific items (i.e., newspapers, scrap metal, aluminum, etc).
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Give/Get Free Stuff at Freecycle.net
Freecycle Network is a grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. JOIN the New Orleans Freecycle Group
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Recycle Cellphones and Ink Cartridges
Local Kinko's, Office Depots, and Whole Foods Markets let you recycle your old cellphone and printer ink cartridges. Also, these sites will turn those items into charitable donations and trees: Charitable Recycling and Think Recycle
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Recycle E-Waste (Computer Monitors, Laptops, Printers and such)
Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council recycles electronic waste, including computers processors, monitors, keyboards, networking systems, printers and scanners, phones and cellphones, digital cameras, fax machines and copiers, and pagers, calculators, and video games. They also provide non-profits with electronic equipment and technical support at very low prices. Uptown Computer, LLC will also accepts your computer monitors, desktops, laptops, and printers. And they will pay YOU for your donation!
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Recycle Mardi Gras Beads @ Arc of Greater New Orleans
Arc-GNO accepts mardi gras beads that are then recycled and sold next year to float riders. Beads are accepted at the following locations: 925 Labarre Rd (in Metairie), 5700 Loyola Avenue (in New Orleans), and 333 Sala Avenue (in Westwego). For more recycling information, call 504-837-5105.
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Use Google Maps to find local recycling options in New Orleans
Luckily, more and more companies are offering recycling in New Orleans...in order to keep up with this, we suggest using google search/maps to find them.
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Support NOLA Recycles 2010!
NOLA Recycles 2010 is a coalition of concerned citizens who will work together to make recycling a reality in New Orleans in 2010. Their goal is to influence the mayoral race and elect a mayor who will develop a comprehensive waste management.
Reduce
01Use Cloth Bags
Bring cloth bags with you to the store. Use them instead of taking plastic bags from the store. (If you are always forgetting the cloth bags in your car, simply leave your items in the cart plastic-bagless and fill up your cloth bags when you get to the car.)
02Go Paperless
Receive bills, make payments, and check your account balance online. If everyone who uses paper checks made electronic payments instead, it would save about $4 billion in paper costs alone. If every household paid just its credit card bills electronically, it would save almost $2 billion a year in postage costs.2
03Stop Junk Mail
Reduce the amount of junk mail you receive by registering with the Mail Preference Service. It costs a buck, but you can easily do it online: www.dmaconsumers.org
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04Stop Getting Unwanted Catalogs
Reduce the amount of catalogs mailed to you. Catalog choice is a free service that lets you decline paper catalogs you no longer wish to receive. Sign up at: www.catalogchoice.org
05Stop Receiving Phone Books
If you don't use the paper phone books, call to stop delievery and use the online telephone directory. Telephone books make up almost 10 % of waste at dump sites.2 When we asked Bellsouth/AT&T how to stop receiving phone books, they said to call the Service Center: 888-757-6500 (open Mon-Fri 8am - 7pm EST & Sat 8am -5pm EST). Good Luck!
06Get a Reusable Water Bottle
Instead of plastic disposable bottles, bring your own reusable water bottle filled with filtered water from home when you go to work/gym/school, etc. You could save an average of $200/year as well as 14 pounds of plastic
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Reuse
01Use Cloth Bags repeating
Bring cloth bags with you to the store. Use them instead of taking plastic bags from the store. (If you are always forgetting the cloth bags in your car, simply leave your items in the cart plastic-bagless and fill up your cloth bags when you get to the car.)
02Get Crafty
Turn that trash into
artwork like this or maybe
something cool from CRAFT: or (using mardi gras beads)
this cute doggie.
03Swap Books/DVDs/CDs/Video Games
PaperBack Swap and Book Mooch let their online group of readers share books with each other for nothing more than the cost of postage!
chanceXchange
is a free service where you can trade unwanted films, cds and books for those things that you really want. Sounds like a lot of fun!
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