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When eating take out, consider saving your empty sauce packets to send in to Terracycle’s free sauce packet recycling program. As a partnership with Taco Bell, they are offering free shipping labels so you can send in any brand of sauce packet for proper recycling. A free sauce packet recycling program offers free shipping labels.

Climate Quick Tip: A Sauce-y Recycling Solution

Decades-old collections of VHS tapes, cassettes, DVDs, and more don’t have to collect dust on your shelves any longer. Greendisk recycles and properly disposes of outdated techwaste, even supplying shipping materials to send it in. Greendisk will supply you with shipping materials so you can send in your outdated techwaste.

Climate Quick Tip: Trashy Tech

Save any brand of broken instrument strings, including electric guitar, bass, acoustic guitar, nylon, and orchestral strings and send them to Terracycle via mail-in or drop-off locations. They will properly recycle them as a part of their recycling program with D’Addario. Terracycle’s free recycling program with D’Addario offers mail-in and drop-off options to recycle all types and brands of instrument strings.

Climate Quick Tip: Broken Strings Can Sing an Eco-Friendly Tune

When the wax in your favorite candle gets too low to burn, place the candle in a small pot and place the small pot in a larger pot full of simmering water. Once the wax is melted, remove and dispose of the wick. You can now pour the wax into a mold of your choice and let it cool to make wax melts, which will fully burn in a wax melter. If your candle jar isn’t an innovative Arbor Made vessel with a silicone base, place the candle jar into a small pot and place the pot in a larger pot of simmering water until wax melts, then pour it into wax melt molds.

Climate Quick Tip: Wax On, Wax Off

Apps like Olio and TooGoodToGo allow users to purchase food that would otherwise be thrown out from local restaurants and retailers at a fraction of the standard price. Not only does this reduce global food waste, but it also reduces your dinner bill. Use apps like Olio or TooGoodToGo to get your next meal at a fraction of the standard price and to save good food from being thrown away.

Climate Quick Tip: Rescue Your Next Meal

Collect fallen leaves to make mulch for your garden. Place leaves in a ventilated container. After about one year, the leaves will have turned into a material you can use to mulch your garden. If you don’t want to leave the fall leaves to pile up on your lawn (despite the benefits) you can save and store them in a ventilated container to create mulch for your garden instead.

Climate Quick Tip: Give Fallen Leaves New Life

Just 35% of aluminum foil gets recycled out of the 1.5 million tons American toss, even though it’s infinitely recyclable. But since small pieces aren’t recycled, collect those foil scraps until you’ve gathered about the size of a tennis ball, then toss it in your recycling bin.  Curious what else you can repurpose or recycle? Read Bluedot’s Guide to Getting Rid of (Almost) Anything.
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Climate Quick Tips: Foiled Again!

Cook up that waste-not, want-not pesto with this easy recipe. 
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Climate Quick Tips: DIY Pesto: From Root to Tip 

Excess moisture causes spinach to wilt and go bad. A tea towel or a reusable paper towel directly on your spinach after washing can soak up moisture and extend its shelf life when you store it.  Bluedot Marketplace has some great reusable paper towels. And don’t miss Bluedot’s tips on how to store produce to ensure longevity.
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Climate Quick Tips: Sad Spinach? 

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Climate Quick Tips: Cast-Iron Pan Need Some TLC? 

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Climate Quick Tips: Don’t Be a Drip!

Don’t toss your used coffee grounds in the trash! Instead, rub warm grounds into your hands, mixed it with your favorite hand soap, to exfoliate. Then scatter remaining grounds around your evergreen shrubs and trees for an energizing fertilizer. Or feed it to your composter.
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Climate Quick Tips: (Coffee) Grounds For Dismissal!

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