Vocal Trash Wants Your Ideas For Earth Day! With Earth Day today, you are likely thinking about the environment and recycling a lot more. Anyone who is dedicated to sustainability and saving the planet will occasionally feel angry and confused. Why aren’t there appropriate recycling bins everywhere? Why are products and packaging materials still being [...]
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Fun, Alternative Workouts with Vocal Trash (Video)
Reuse Trash to Get Fit! Maybe your resolution this year was to recycle more and improve your efforts at conservation. That’s an admirable goal to have and it’s one that we here at Vocal Trash take to heart. Yet, you can totally combine your goal of reducing pollution and landfill waste with another common aspiration: [...]
Amanda – Creative Upcycling with Kids (Video)
Would You Like To Star In A Vocal Trash Video? In this special edition of the Vocal Trash's Street Show, three-year fan Amanda shows off the creative purses she made by recycling plastic Ziploc bags and shimmery pink duct tape (yes, they make pink!) She says it’s a fun activity she can do with her [...]
How Do You Reuse Magazines and Newspapers? (Video)
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 [...]