Well, that was fun. All that planning and buying, wrapping and cooking remain as sweet memories of Holiday cheer. However, time marches on and whether or not we like it, we march along as well. I hope the season was everything you expected and more. But now, it’s time to start thinking about how to ring in the New Year…greener than ever.
With 2 kids, my household seems to go through a ton of drink pouches & juice boxes. At the start of the school year we received a flyer asking us to bring in our used juice pouches so they could be converted into pencil bags & backpacks. My daughter’s school had joined the Drink Pouch Brigade™ program. Each year billions of drink pouches end up in landfills because they cannot be recycled. The company TerraCycle teamed up manufactures to create free programs that collect non-recyclable packaging which they upcycle into new products. Its surprising to see how many drink pouches the school collects each week. The kids are saving the pouches from taking up space in landfills and receiving a $.02 donation for each drink pouch they collect. Join the brigade!
The first phone book was published in New Haven, Connecticut in 1878. It was considered for well over 100 years to be an indispensable part of communication, advertisement, an excuse to show off how strong one is by ripping it into two pieces, and as Navan R. Johnson claimed, to legitimize one’s self. AT&T in Atlanta, Georgia this last summer was the first major American city to petition the state’s public utilities commission to stop sending a hard copy of the phone book (yellow and white pages) to every resident with or without a phone.
