It often is impossible to completely clean these kinds of kid made messes.

When intentional messes come up, like picking up after Legos, or tinker toys–often pre-planning is the most efficient means of clearing a messy play area quickly. One method is the draw string circular tarp method: Which involves cutting a piece or tarp that lays in a flat large diameter as the play area. When the multifaceted toy(s) are no longer of interest, the parent teaches the child to draw the string up, and the entire play area is contained in the resulting draw string tarp bag.

This method won’t work with packing peanuts. They get scattered over lawns, earthen floors of wooden areas under tree forts, in abandoned storm shelters that are now kid forts.

If a gardener digs down far enough in a neighbourhood that has been built over a pre-existing trash heap: Discarding packing material and other things surface over time in the garden.

Before biodegradable alternatives started being offered: these light weight packing peanuts were the environmental bane of every shipping and freight yard in America.

They were an environmental disaster twisting freely in the spiraling wind. Like insects they were too light weight for any maintenance crew to catch or chase down.

In the past janitorial staff and grounds keepers would have to hope they blew away, or wait until the wind died down, and hope to sweep them all up before a new gust picked them up again.

These light weight cushions often get picked up by the wind, after shipping and moved for miles.

They get swept up into trash cans, only to be knocked or nudged free by foraging animals, and exposure to the wind.

This is why anyone who uses packing peanuts to ship materials should use biodegradable packing peanuts.

These are the kind that archaeologists won’t find two thousand years from now.

They will have long decayed into natural soil and nutrient deposits: Or, been blow to the river and consumed safely by aquatic life nearly two thousand years prior to that inquiring dig.

These biodegradable packing peanuts are not only good for shipping. They make great party confetti.

They are great for dumping off the roof of a church, Masque, temple, or meeting hall on top of the heads of fleeing newly-weds. In fact these biodegradable packing peanuts are safer for birds than rice.

So, let the biodegradable packing peanuts get shipped around, then tossed by children into the wind as additional cushion in raked leaf piles, and tossed down at weddings, food fights, and town square pillow fights. Then get picked up by the beaks of birds, and dropped in water ways across America. It won’t matter; because they are environmentally safe.

If you have to send the trash in the collection truck to the land fill, you can do so with a clear conscience with Seventh Generation trash bags.

These bags are made from recycled plastic. That means that the bag is not going to break down much more than it has.

The manufacturer states that these bags are free of petrochemicals. In most cases that means that the product comes from a plant source. Often fruit fibers are used in creating various types of plastics.

Plastics made from fruit, bark, and vegetable fibers are easier for the elements to break down safely. They are also easier for smaller animals to consume.

Each Seventh Generation kitchen trash bag box contains 20 count boxes of 13 gallon bags.

These bags can be purchased online from Seventh Generation twelve boxes at a time. You can also search for other sizes and amounts including the 30 and 33 gallon variety.

There is no need to throw them in the trash. But if you do throw them away, you will have confidence in knowing that they will not add to pollution in the environment.

If birds pick up a biodegradable fork, knife or spoon from the land fill, they can be eaten safely. If birds drop pieces of them in the water, or if they go overboard during a boating party, the vegetable based plastic will not harm fish.

You can purchase them individually in packages of 1000 and have enough for many years to come.

Biodegradable Utensils: Knives, forks and spoons:

This large count is ideal for large family get together, hospitals and cafeterias, large outdoor catered events, schools, art gallery open houses, rallies, conventions, stands, parties, and businesses.

Clear Biodegradable Cold Cups:

Biodegradable cold cups can be either clear or have a printed logo or message on them.

You can also purchase the Flat Lids For 12/16/20/24-Ounce Corn Cold Cups

These PLA cups are made from corn.

Unlike petroleum based cups they will easily biodegrade.

This greatly reduces the long and short term effects of these cold cups that are truly designed for not much more than one time use.

In the past, petroleum plastic cups would be designed for casual one time use. The affect on the environment was, (and is) anything but one time for petroleum based plastic cups.

The good news is with eco friendly cold cups all that can be avoided. And one time use truly means one time use.

This is also the case for the PLA based corn plastic lids and straws.

Not only for the occasion they are purchased for, but also for the environment. When these products break down it is the last time we have to hear or worry about them.

This plate was designed to be sturdy. It doesn’t let food leak through.

The plate also is designed for your one time use. Then it will degrade rapidly when left to the elements.

You can serve your family, housemates, and friends with the assurance that one time disposal doesn’t mean long term cost to the environment.

In fact you can put these plates in your compost. It will actually be beneficial.

The plate is made from sugar cane fiber. The plate will actually in rich the soil of your garden or flower bed.

Imagine after a meal not having to do dishes; save any pots and pans. All the glass ware, napkins, forks, serving spoons, knives, plates bowls, juice, beverage and coffee cups all go into a bag, along with the scraps, out the back door, tied up, and left to be mixed into the garden or compost. Find other utensils by Stalkmarket on Amazon.com!

If you live in a building, your scraps and left over biodegradable plates will degrade easier in a land fill.

Biodegradable plates made from sugar cane fibers are finger licking good from the serving to the grave.

Not all hot cups are bridgeable. But finding a line will keep anyone from having to do a lot of dishes after an outing, party, or potluck.

This kind of cup also reduces wasted space in landfills. This space can be reserved for more serious trash disposal needs.

Eco Hot Cups turns out to be a great find. They are 100% compostable. These cups will degrade in sixty days of less!

In your office cafeteria these biodegradable hot cups will greatly reduce the negative foot print that had been left on the environment by coffee cups and soup cups from offices alone.

This is also a great way to show employees that your company is about more than just monetary profit. And it demonstrates that your firm believes that the greater good is a means of profit as well. And that the environment is worth investing in yes?

This promotion of green space value will send a positive message about you, your firm, it’s workforce and client base.

Eco-Products Biodegradable Cups, World Design

Getting children and family friends used to reaching for 100% biodegradable hot cups while shopping online, at a dollar store, or at large is a great way to begin to reinforce sound familial care taker practices that will carry over into green space preservation for centuries to come.

Eco hot cups are ideal for the environmentally conscious coffee shop. The hot cups are stylish. The sizes fit the standards customers are used to buying in cozy coffee shops around the corner or down the street the world over. These cups range from 4 oz. taste tester to over indulgent (in a good way) 24 oz mais vente offering.

The Eco hot cups reflect interesting understated facts about how these cups and other efforts are saving green space across the country, and around the planet.

They come in green strip bottom with plain white cup body, and world art.

Eco-Products Green Striped Hot Biodegradable Cups

The base color for the world art variety changes with each size or serving portion increase. 4oz being heavily creamed coffee tone, through the dark coffee tones of rich dark brown. These browns increasingly become lighter in coffee bean reflective earth tones. The largest of these cups is a light blue base under the artistic global overlay.

Eco hot cups are that much more cozy to hold. They give the beverage feeling of warm comfort that reflects just a bit more; since the drinker knows the warm indulgence will reduce negativity more than was possible before.

Eco hot cups, eco hot cup lids, and eco grip sleeve jacket, insulators are tremendously reducing the impact of unnecessary pollution from comfort hot drink waste across America.

They are made by Eco Products which is a company based out of Boulder Colorado and they can be purchased at competitive prices on Amazon.com which helps support our efforts to review this product here, thank you!

Plastic bottles for drinking water and aluminum cans are two of the largest contributors to landfills in the world and they are items that we consume constantly as a civilization.

In the US alone, 130 billion beverage containers make their way to the landfills per year, and our country is one of the major recyclers and environmentally aware nations of the modern world, who would expect that kind of pollution from us?

Just having an EcoPod at home or in the office is like saying, hey, look, we are environmentally aware, are you? Anything that becomes trendy enough to become the latest fashion, will certainly change the world we live in forever, and EcoPods creators are looking to take advantage of this latest cultural trend to go green and sustainable right now, with a product that looks cool and doesboth people and the environment; a favor.

Two compartments under the upper lid area, offer space to hold other recycled materials, such as paper or glass, maximizing the containers total storage area and making better use of existing curbside recycling systems.

EcoPod will save time, space, money and CO2 emissions as the cans and bottles come compacting in and people notice your effort to make a difference in the world for a more sustainable way of life that focuses on stewarding the earth and taking responsibility for our role in creation on this planet.

BMW designworks, a company dedicated to sustainable development, helped put the EcoPod together, a compacting recycling system for the home and office, that is not only kool looking, but a global idea for that allows us to think global, while acting local.

Work smarter, not harder; that is what a recycling bin cart is for, doing the hardest part of the home or office paper recycling job, by giving you an efficient space saving tool that keeps durable boxes made just for this one chore in a well organized fashion that is both nice to look at and says something about taking care of the environment.

Hauling cardboard boxes to the curb has always been a difficult task, because after a time, those boxes tend to breakdown from all the lugging, dropping, lifting and so on, putting them on a cart can make things easier, but itis still messy; a recycling bin cart, that uses durable recycling bins however, is the right tool, for the right job.

This height-adjustable cart can have two or three tiers, is made of a rust-resistant tubular steel frame, mounts on a wheeled base that roles around smoothly without any stress, measures 62 x 19 x 17 ½, weighs 9 lbs and will hold a total of 90 lbs or 30 lbs per bin.

This recycling bin cart makes life more organized, eliminating the use of old cardboard boxes in favor of recycling boxes that are durable and easy to handle, made specifically for storing and transporting large quantities of waste paper from the home or office to the curb, effortlessly.

Color distinction is interesting for those delving into the trend of recycling, allowing bright colors like blue, to stand out as a place for recyclables.

The We Recycle symbol has already become universal, and accepted around the world, making it even harder for someone to make the mistake of throwing the wrong material into the recycling box.

Blue may yet become the standard for paper recycling boxes along with other main colors for tins or plastics and they can be used as a storage containers as well as a recycling bins.

At present, with the world of Web 2.0 and the word online becoming common everywhere, the use of computers has skyrocketed, taking with it, an overuse of precious wood to produce and abundance of paper; paper that can be recycled.

Commercial sized bulk ink adaptations for home printers have transformed the average user into an almost commercial consumer of paper, not to mention offices and Xerox machines that have always worked with large amounts of waste paper.

Having a blue recycling box in your home or office is a way to show others what is possible with just a small initiative, keeping things better organized, and helping to save the planet at the same time.

This blue recycling bin fore curbside programs, has built-in handles, was designed to stack or nest, for use with high-volumes of recycled paper products, measuring at 20 x 15 3/8 x 13½, holding 12 ½ gal and shipping at 3.4 lb.

This blue recycling bin is a box to keep things organized, it comes with the We Recycle symbol on the side, and will take loads of waste paper to and from the curb, it is easily stacked or nested, allowing you to think global, and act local, for a cleaner, healthier tomorrow, where trees, people and the environment, are all living in harmony together.

Most recycle bins are constantly being opened and closed, the Touchless has an automatic open/close function that does all the opening and closing for you as long as you have a hand within six inches of the sensor it stays open, once you remove your hand, it closes on its own after three seconds.

Keeping the kitchen free of sticky stuff is very important for hygienic reasons, but trash and recycle bins are always filling up with leftover sauces, oils and anything else that we need to constantly keep clean, so most people opt to keep them away from the kitchen, where we most need them!

Here is a kitchen recycling bin that offers the best of both worlds; neat, clean and tidy recycling that makes sense for the environment as well as our needs.

This recycling bin has two separate inner buckets for either organics in one or recyclables in the other, 30 liters each and capable of using regular 8 or 13 gallon trash bags in each, it runs off of four long living D batteries up to one year if used wisely (sold separately), it has wheels for easy movement as well as two buttons for manual opening/closing and an on/off switch, measuring 23.23 x 14.76 x 24.61, with a one-year limited warranty.

The Touchless is a kitchen recycling bin made specifically to keep your kitchen cleaner and yet still do the job recycling containers need to get done, keeping the messy stuff inside the bin and dirty fingers away.

When we think about the planet, and making sure that our children are going to have a better, brighter, more desirable tomorrow, we think of Mother Nature, the city, but most especially, we are reminded of trash, and waste, about where it goes, and maybe even why more people are not taking the forefront initiative to do a little bit of recycling where it counts most, at home.

Paper bags, plasticsacks, tin cans, disposable kitchen wear, two liter bottles and more, the list of products that we use and abuse, going through our kitchens is almost endless, but we can do something, we can start by providing a space that makes a difference, readily available to all the family members, color coded, dry, clean, nifty and verticalized to make better use of space, with stackable recycle bins.

Storage Trends 18 Gallon/72 Quart stacking Suncast recycle bin, for indoor/outdoor use, measures 18 1/4 wide x 24 3/8 deep x 17 high and ships at 20 pounds.

Stackable Recycle Bins are the perfect thing to save space in the kitchen, in the trash can, and just a little bit more of the planet, because they do the job we need to have done today, but with one foot set on the future we leave to our childrens children tomorrow.

There are two main kinds of biodegradable bags A.K.A biobags, one is more environmentally friendly than the other, those with starch based polymers are greener and those petrochemically produced bags with an additive base hold up like the real deal but release CO2 upon breakdown.

Each kind has strong points, and each their specific weak points, but which solution is more sustainable for a given population really depends on the location of composting facilities in the area, and the specific needs of that given population.

Not everyone enjoys the starch based Polythene film products because certain precautions need to be taken in regard to how they are used.

They do not replace petroleum plastics in the sense that they are not as rugged or enduring, having a lifespan and shelf-span, much like food products do.

Starches like wheat, corn and potatoes are usually used, meaning that this product competes with those kinds of food products, possibly even threatening consumption both of the food and the plastic product as crop yields help determine prices and supply.

Agriculturally speaking, this is an alternative that will eventually stimulate the area to produce more starch-based crops and alternative methods of production will come about the more space is restricted and consumer demands grow, but eventually the conditions for a more self-sufficient economy will become ever clearer.

Starch-based Polythene is also known as biobased (hydrodegradable) and reaches the American Standards for Testing Materials as well as the European norms for compostability degrading in 60% under 180 days.

Polymers that usually use starch are Polycaprolactone (PCL), Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and Polylactic acid (PLA), all used to control the microbial breakdown, only allowing breakdown in the presence of microbes, heat, moisture and proper aeration, such as those conditions found in traditional compost piles.

Additive based plastic bags on the other hand are our traditional plastic bag films with a special chemical adjustment so as to make them breakdown more readily under certain conditions.

Instead of taking hundreds of years to breakdown, these plastic bags will take only six months to two years, accelerating their breakdown process considerably, clearing up landfills and other litter issues, such as those found in nation parks, forests, sewers, storm drains and other water ways.

So are these additive-based compostable bags a more sustainable alternative? Not really, they certainly dont need consumers to be aware of how to use them, and they work just like what consumers have now, but they release CO2 upon degradation and petroleum is a limited resource that depends greatly on foreign affairs of state, which contributes to instability.

In the first stages of decomposer, oxygen, light, heat and/or stress react on a molecular level, fragmenting the film in such a way that water can wet and surround its molecules, thus making it readily biodegradable, leaving only CO2, water and biomass once microorganisms get a hold of it.

These oxodegradable/photodegradable plastic bags may make things easier without causing much change in the consumers lifestyle today and cost a little less right now when compared to those that are starch based, but in the long run, this is not a sustainable alternative, thus they do not meet European standards for compostability.

Between the two main alternatives in compostable bags, starch based trash bags are less resistant than the traditional plastic bags with an additive base, and also require more consumer care while using them, but in the long run, starch based bags take less time to decompose (up to 180 days) while additive based bags may takea couple of years (up to 2 yrs) and have the downside of being made from petrochemicals as well as releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.

In the end, the compostable bags you choose need to be right to fit your needs, only you know how green you can be…

Good list of current “approved” bags at:
BPI World Approved Products

Soda cans are essentially cylinders that can be radically reduced in size and still be properly recycled neatly with a can crusher.

Space is such a commodity in todays American culture, where verticalization, industry and commerce go hand in hand.

Not just time is money, but our precious urban spaces are money as well; this can crusher will hold up to 300-crushed soda cans where only 100 non-crushed could traditionally be stored in a bin of the same dimensions.

Weighing only 14 lbs when empty, made of composition high impact, heavy duty durable plastics that will last for hundreds of years, this can crusher measures 33 high x 14 wide x 18.5deep and is an attractive addition to any kitchen recycling program.

At a 3:1 reduction ratio, you can keep your recycled aluminum cans from messing up cardboard boxes and bins that tend to take on foul odors when left unattended properly.

This can crusher will help keep the area neat and clean, preserving space and helping our civilization go one step closer to self-reliance.

This elegant neutral light gray color blends well with most decors and most importantly, this can crusher is an efficient way to keep those tin cans recycled in a more organized fashion that helps us remember that we are on the path to self-reliance, one step at a time.

Verticalization through recycling towers is a concept that goes back as far as the very first walled and defended city-states of primitive human civilizations, but is made from products that are essential to our current way of life, recycling those things with an open mind.

Learning from our past, we can make a better future, and that is what this recycling tower is all about, separating our trash before it goes to the dump.

Made from composition plastic this recycling tower will endure for hundreds of years if well kept and extremely light weight with 3 recycling bins, the most important inorganic kitchen trash to be recycled are metals, plastics and glass.

Paper and Organics go hand in hand with each other and can be composted easily, but usually there is always a surplus of paper, such as newspaper.

If this is the case, one of these recycling bins should be reserved just for that in place of another material that is less used, which might be glass in your case for example.

Each bin pivots to allow for ready access, and the bottom bin has a foot pedle that saves on bending over every time you want to throw a tin can in for example.

This three bin recycling tower measures 50 1/5 high, 13 ¼ in deep and 14 ½ wide total, while each individual bin measures 13 high x 7.5 deep x 12.5 wide.

All the pieces (simple assembly) weigh a total of 15 pounds only, easy to move around to wherever in the house when empty.

This light gray 3 bin recycling tower uses verticalized space to be more effective in todays ever smaller indoor urban spaces, using ancient human knowledge and modern materials for a better tomorrow.

What is the technical definition of biodegradable plastic? To qualify as biodegradable a container, cover, or other object made from plastic must decompose sixty to ninety percent within sixty to one hundred and eighty days.

What if someone could come up with a plastic that was user and earth friendly? Perhaps one that naturally breaks down similar to a peat pot. This container would have to be pleasing to the eye and durable. Now let us take it a step further and add nutrients to the material that the biodegradable plastic was made of. Sounds like an interesting concept huh?

Besides being a huge benefit to our environment think about the business application in the agricultural, nursery and landscaping business.

Let’s research this some more to find out if there is such a thing as biodegradable plastic for a cell phone cover.

The University of Warwick in the U.K. has come up with the first product that fits all of our criteria…

Originally designed to make disposable cell phone covers, the University and Pvaxx have produced the first sturdy, moldable biodegradable plastic.

One of the very unique features about the cell phone cover design is that they embedded a dwarf sunflower seed into it. This should please the ecologist in all of us.

You can literally throw the cover into a pile of dirt and a sunflower will grow which is an interesting marketing idea indeed.

Imagine a day when everything plastic can break down in our landfills, and gardens. This is not mentioning all the litterbugs across the world that throw, plastic bottles and containers out their car windows. What if the major fast food chains started to use these types of containers? The possibilities are limitless.

This technology makes good practical, business and environmental sense. I hope within twelve months we can walk into a local nursery and pick up a plastic biodegradable starter planting pot.

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