What Can You Do With Magazines & Newspapers? What do you do with your old magazines when you’re done reading them? Do they sit around your house for years? Do you just throw them in the trash? Even though you can recycle them, 25 PERCENT of our landfills are filled with old magazines and newspapers [...]
Why Are You Not Recycling This Material?
What You Can Do With Cardboard In the United States, 90 percent of all products are packaged and shipped using cardboard, according to Earth 911; and, as Annenberg Media reports, cardboard accounts for 41 percent of all municipal waste in the United States. Only 25 percent gets recycled, which means that 75 percent of used [...]
Are Your Water Bottles Being Recycled? (Video)
Alarming Facts About Plastic Bottle Caps Are you one of the many people who have been recycling plastic bottles with the bottle caps still on? Well, first of all, bravo to you for thinking before you threw that bottle away! Recycle bins are one of the most powerful weapons we have in environmental conservation today. [...]
Is YOUR Christmas “Green”? (Video)
Vocal Trash Dreams of a Green Christmas “May your world have air that is clean! And may all your Christmases be green!” Vocal Trash has some helpful suggestions with how you can have a very Merry Christmas, but still be kind to the environment and “go green” this holiday season. What Can [...]
Recycled Merchandise (Video)
Check Out Our Recyclable Merchandise Sale! If you really enjoy what we’re doing here at Vocal Trash and want to show your support for the environment, recycling, reducing, reusing, and all that great stuff, you can buy some of our ECO-FRIENDLY merchandise and it will be like having VT in your home all the time! [...]
Thankful for… (Video)
Happy Thanksgiving, kids! This Thanksgiving, Vocal Trash is thankful that we have such amazing fans who are eager to learn all about how to recycle and why recycling is good for the planet. In this video, the gang is at the Dallas Arboretum for National Recycling Day to spread our positive message about sustainability. What [...]
Vocal Trash Wants Your Ideas! (Video)
Vocal Trash Is Looking For Fan Ideas! By now, you know the mantra: Recycle, Reduce and Reuse! We’ve been talking about these very things at Vocal Trash for years now and you’ve been learning all about how to reuse, how we recycle, and how we can save the planet by reducing the amount of waste [...]
Choose Your Fabrics Wisely (Video)
Choose Your Fabrics Wisely Clothes are something that we buy a LOT of! Eventually we grow out of them, they go out of style, or they become worn. We’re faced with boxes and boxes of these garments and we need to make a decision! How do we recycle our old clothes? Or perhaps you have [...]
Pros & Cons of Reusable Bags (Video)
Reusable Bags, Choosing the Best Option… In this edition of the Vocal Trash Street Show, the gang muses on the pros and cons of reusable shopping bags. We simply can’t afford to overlook this important area of conservation. Why Use Reusable Shopping Bags? As you may know (based on the number of reusable bags offered [...]
Green Toys: Safe and All-American (Video)
Safe, Home Grown and Green. Toys you can count on (and put in your mouth too!) It can be difficult for parents to shop for baby toys with toy safety in mind because it seems everything is made in China or contaminated with lead and toxins. It’s scary to think that infants could be putting [...]