Madison County Curbside Recycling Expands

February 21, 2011 by · 2 Comments 

Curbside Recycling expands to include cardboard and paper Starting this week, February 21st, Madison County residents will be able to put cardboard in their curbside recycling bin! According to this article, recyclers can include: “junk mail, cereal boxes, small cardboard boxes, paper bags, office paper, envelopes, newspaper inserts, paperback books and comic books”. This is [...]

Tree & Glass Ornament Recycling

January 5, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

Recycle your real Christmas tree & any broken glass ornaments Huntsville Botanical Gardens is accepting real Christmas trees, which will be recycled into free mulch for anyone to use.  At my house this fall, we did some landscaping and used the free mulch; it’s the richest, healthiest looking mulch I’ve seen!  Anyway, I digress- Christmas [...]

Phone Book Recycling

December 16, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Recycle your phone book and help local schools at the same time!  Click here to read the article on al.com.

One Person Making a Difference

August 16, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

My hubby always keeps me up-to-date on the latest articles on al.com.  Today he shared one about a local Grissom High graduate who’s working towards establishing a recycling project at her alma mater. I think it’s pretty awesome!!!  It’s always inspiring to hear about one person taking the lead to bring about a change.  All [...]

Recycle Your Bras!

July 16, 2010 by · 6 Comments 

Think Outside the Recycle Bin Check out this list of random items you can recycle.  And yes, your bosom buddy can live on!  Some of my favs from the list: Wine Corks:  Send your wine corks to Yemm and Hart Green Materials and they’ll turn them into cork floor tiles.  You do have to pay [...]

Green Mountain Glass

July 12, 2010 by · 3 Comments 

Huntsville, Alabama’s newest green business, Green Mountain Glass, is set to start production as of  August 1st!  They’ll be a regional glass recycling center for our area, accepting glass to then recycle it into one of four products.  According to this article on al.com, they’ll be making landscape cover, play sand, raw material for fiberglass [...]

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