Apartment Therapy: recycling & donating

Recycling Frame from Matteriashop

This Recycling Frame from Matteriashop isn't going to work for those of us who have mastered the take-your-own-reusable-bag-to-the-store routine. But we can't help but like it. And we know there are p...

Party Aftermath: Recycling Reminder

As we enter the holiday season, it might be helpful to review the everyday recycling rules in New York City. I know that I'm always challenged by questions as to whether or not found party debris is...

8 Things To Recycle As You Declutter
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Rather than fall cleaning, we usually embark on a couple weeks of fall decluttering. We round up any unwanted items that have been collecting over the last few months and send them on their way. For...

Inspiration: Beer Bottle Partitions

Beer bottles – what can’t they be used for? During the renovation the historic and now defunct Milwaukee Blatz Brewery, salvaged and original Blatz bottles were turned into warm amber pivoting p...

Oops! 5 Tools To Help You Remember Your Reusable Bags

We're totally on the reusable bag train. We've been championing it since... well, way before most of our friends jumped in on it, driven by their lust for the Anya Hindmarch bag. We've got small b...

13 Great Uses and Reuses for Paper Bags

If we happen to lapse on taking our reusable totes to the store, which isn't very often anymore thanks to this post, we ask the cashier to pack our groceries in paper bags. Even though there's still a...

Recycling Bin Turns Waste Paper Into Furniture

The whole point of putting your waste paper out to be recycled is for it to be reused in yet another generation of paper products — toilet paper, printer paper, magazines, etc. But what if you ...

Top 4 Indoor Recycling Bins
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Bon Appétit just posted their top recycling bins over on their Conscious Cook blog, and we saw at least one of our favorites. See the full list below the jump: ...

Junk+ion: What's your function?

Dana from Israel sent in a great tip about junk+ion, a company in Tel Aviv that takes one man's trash and turns it into another man's treasure... ...

13 Ways To Repurpose Old Clothes

Vintage clothes get made into one-of-a-kind boutique pillows We've spent the past few days cleaning out the closet, giving away or donating things that no longer fit or that we no longer wear. But t...

Simple Green: Get an Extra Recycling Bin

Week One of the Green Cure has one assignment: get rid of one thing. But if you had add one thing to you home, we’d suggest an extra recycling bin…...

Chill Designs: He Makes Wine. She Recycles The Barrels.

Ron Calvert makes wine in his home winery, located in the Sierra Foothills of Northern California. His wife Candace, meanwhile, decided to recycle the barrels Ron uses for wine making (that have a l...

Cool News: Recycling Cell Phones Just Got Easier

If you're participating in our Green Cure next week, you'll probably be spending a lot of time cleaning out drawers and getting organized. Whenever we clean out drawers, we're always haunted by a ha...

Simple (Maybe Radical) Green: Ditch the Running Shoes

When cool air hits, we seem to rediscover running. What better way to get outside and appreciate nature, while getting fit at the same time? We're not installing a bike that will power our blender any...

Etsy Find: Upcycled Vintage Plates by Le Petit Boutique

We love these bright and clever upcycled plates – used to eat from or purely for display they’re an unique way to insert a pop of color into your home…...

Outdoor Recycling: Storage Solutions

For a couple of years in college, we rented a house and loved the curbside recycling, but were often put off by the unsightly trash can and recycling bins that we had to hide behind a hedge on the sid...

How To: Get it Sold on Craigslist

How many times have you clicked on a Craigslist ad to see an item and seen this instead? "Camera broken, promise good quality?" Maybe you should send that person these Craigslist Rules to get it sol...

Simple Green: Living With Less
And Explaining Why You Do It

Recently, our home has been getting a preview of the Fall Cure—we've been paring down and organizing like there's no tomorrow. But we have loving family members who want to give us things we don't t...

Where to Donate Carpet?
Good Question

Q: I'm working at an interior design company and we are cleaning out our carpet section and have many samples that we're getting rid of. Do you have any thoughts on where we might be able to donate ...

Hot Tip: Get The Most From Your Curbside Shopping

A chair found on the street and then reupholstered! It takes a certain penchant for thrifting —not to mention an eye for design— to pull off curbside "shopping." And it also takes a littl...

Garage Sale Hunting Inspiration

Early autumn garage sales are some of our favorites; wake up early, throw on a hoodie, grab some cash and coffee and foray into the unknown yards and garages of those who purge at the change of seas...

A Composting Trashcan: Envi by Julien Bergignant

We love composting because it reduces food waste and it's good for things that grow. So we're liking this idea for a public trashcan that processes the food that's tossed into it into compost, and t...

Pallets as Building Material: So Many Options
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Every day we pass a local hardware store on our bike ride home, and in the corner of their parking lot, next to the street, sits a pile of shipping pallets. The pile slowly dwindles throughout the w...

Cardboard Stools by Proyecto Cartoon

We're always very wary of cardboard furniture. It doesn't make a lot of sense to us. Yes, it's fully recyclable and can be made from recycled material. But how long does it last and how often do you h...

Found Form by Enina Waelstham For Mormels Design

Dutch designer Enina Waelstham of Mormels Design has created a unique collection of lamps out of recycled paper that she's pasted over various found objects, like coffee cups. Once she has the right...

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