The Budget Ecoist- Eco Living on a Budget

You might have thought to just throw away your old printer cartridge, thinking that once the ink runs out, the card is no good. eCycle has created recycle programs for recyling your empty printer cartidges in order to reduce landfills, and also save us money by reusing cartridges we already have.

eCycle’s Campus Collection Program
eCycle has been present on college campuses finding solutions for campus to reuse their catridges, something

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We want to give credit where credit is due. So the idea for this post came from one of our favorite British blogs, How Can I Recycle This?

It just so happens that one of the Ecoists over here has a husband (and we're not naming names) who has a thing about fish tanks. You know....buy fish, kill fish, buy more fish, insist these fish will survive the obviously cruel fate you're subjecting them to. The next thing you know, the fish tank is....

Using a clothes dryer isn't the greenest way to dry your laundry, but they haven't been phased out yet, and even with increased usage of clotheslines and drying racks, dryers are not going anywhere anytime soon. So when you do use your dryer, and remove a fuzzy layer of lint from the catcher, can anything be done with this lint instead of throwing it away? The answer is yes, and not too surprisingly, many suggestions can be found on the....

Recently the Budget Ecoist took a beach vacation and marveled at the amount of disposable products needed on said vacation and the lack of recycling bins in convenient (read: on the beach, at the motel) places. Short of taking your green and blue bins with you, (which would certainly take up precious trunk or overhead space) we thought there had to be an answer to this summertime dilemma for the socially conscious.

We went to the source and....

Be the envy of your friends at the party, and deliver your gift with presentation! Don't let fancy stores have all the fun packing your gift for you; you can do it yourself with minimal effort and recyclable materials from around the house.

This past weekend, we were preparing for a party. We had purchased the bride-to-be some natural products to soothe her tired tootsies; now all we had left to do was put the gift together.

Leftover box....

Even though most of us journal, email, and do everything else on a computer screen these days instead of paper; there is still something special about taking out your beautifully bound notebook and quill and going to literary town. Sadly, some trees died for our right to write and that makes us a little less enthusiastic as we sit down to outline our musings. And we love trees! Unfortunately, no matter how good it might feel, it’s just not the....