Recygal® Blog
Stories, tips, and updates on recycling, sustainability, and what happens to material after it leaves the bin.
Starting a School Recycling Program
Starting a school recycling program can seem like a daunting task. Addressing a few key questions can help you to best manage your available finances and get your…
Disposable Cups- Recycling
Americans dispose of billions upon billions of paper, plastic, and foam cups. This year over 58 billion paper cups and 25 billion polystyrene foam cups will pass through…
Recycling Toys
Children around the world delight in the wonder that toys bring to their lives. Who canÕt remember their favorite childhood toy? I suppose it is this nostalgic wonder…
Recycling and Green Chemistry
While the word, RECYCLING may bring Ògreen thoughtsÓ to mind, for many of us the word, CHEMISTRY, conjures up thoughts of bad chemicals, mad scientists, and incomprehensible concepts.…
Zip Lock Plastic Bags: A Tragic Case of Recycling Inconvenience
Just Zip It. Zipper-type plastic storage bags have hundreds of uses and are fast becoming the quintessential storage solution for households and businesses. Foods, electronic parts, garden soils,…
Recycling Halloween: Goblins, Ghosts, and Garbage!
While this famous phrase may conjure up thoughts of witches concocting a potion, it surely doesn’t represent all the Halloween fun we have carving pumpkins, trick or treating,…
PLASTIC RESIN CODE SEVEN, UNLUCKY FOR RECYCLING
When it comes to recycling, there is nothing lucky about plastic resin code, Seven. The last member of the code numbers developed in 1988 by the Society of…
I Got to Thinking, Why so Much Plastic?
Last week, my husband bought a replacement light switch from one of the big box stores. To make this switch versatile enough to work across popular styles, it…
How To Make Good Compost
Whether composting at home for your garden or collecting food scraps and yard debris for municipal pick up, a basic knowledge of composting essentials is indispensable. The art…
Watch Coca-Cola, Pepsi CEOs discuss plastics at the World Economic Forum
PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta and Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey are joined by the CEO of plastic-maker Dow Chemical, Jim Fitterling, at the World Economic Forum panel about transforming the plastics economy.…