Reduce and Reuse Archives - Green and Grumpy

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Easy tips for entertaining, decorating and gift-giving this season while creating less wasteful holidays. Plus holiday recycling tips.

Repair cafés are places where volunteers will help you get free electronics and appliance repair help, and they are cropping up all over.

Our desire for cheap trendy clothes has a huge environmental impact. Just how bad is fast fashion pollution? Really bad.

Fun and creative upcycled and recycled jewelry ideas you can use as inspiration to make or purchase for yourself or as a gift.

A summary and analysis of the Discovery documentary, The Story of Plastic, plus action items and additional reading recommendations.

I test out and review four different apps that claim to help you find places to refill your water bottle in the United States.

You shouldn’t throw corks in your recycling bin, but there are places that will reuse, upcycle and recycle corks that you may not know about.

Landfills are more complicated than you think, and what you throw in your trash can actually be contributing to climate change.

Stop getting catalogs, credit card offers, flyers, coupons and other junk mail sent to your house using a few quick opt-out forms.

Learn how to make a yummy low-waste copycat version of Starbucks’ chai latte without buying those expensive cartons of Tazo concentrate.