How Do YOU Conserve Water? Kelsey Rae of Vocal Trash reuses her dryer sheets as cloths that absorb grease and grime from her pots and pans. That way, she can avoid throwing these big items in the dishwasher altogether! Did you know that you use 15 gallons of water every time you run your dishwasher? [...]
Earth Day Approaching…are you a Water Warrior? (Video)
Become An Aveda Water Warrior “A child dies every 21 seconds due to lack of water,” Kelsey Rae tells us in this Vocal Trash video. Watch Steve Linder, Kelsey Rae, Larry Parish, Greg Dugan, Chris Beck, Anthony Silva, and Angelo Salas; as the Vocal Trash crew wants you to think about why we should recycle, [...]
Plastic Bottle Caps…the ugly truth (Video)
Aveda Leads In Plastic Bottle Cap Recycling Campaign News Flash: Plastic bottle caps are not recycled! I know… it’s shocking, right? These little caps sit in landfills forever or get whisked away into the water supply system, where they wash up on beaches or are mistaken for food by sea birds who then endure fatal [...]
What? Recycled Instruments…Musically Speaking (Video)
What? Musical Instruments Made of Recycled Trash? Hey gang, the Vocal Trash® troupe is at it again – this time with a couple new instruments made by their friends at KnotAFish.com. Picking junk out of a landfill and making it into usable instruments is what Vocal Trash is all about; starting the movement to “THINK…before [...]
Shoes, Glorious Shoes… (Video)
Eco-Friendly Spring Is In, Non-Recyclable Flops Are So Out Now that Spring – the season of renewal has officially started in North America, most of us are renewing, reorganizing and re-energizing. Speaking of which, many people are cleaning out their closets to see what clothing they need to get rid of, keep or purchase [...]
Hidden Truth about Styrofoam…shocking facts revealed (Video)
Get Styrofoam Out Of Our Landfills! Did you know… Styrofoam never goes away? Americans use 25 BILLION Styrofoam cups each year? We use enough Styrofoam cups to wrap around the world 436 times? The Facts on Styrofoam Once upon a time (the 1940s), Styrofoam was viewed as a miracle material that could hold liquids and [...]
How to use alternatives to this common material and save the planet (Video)
Earthquakes Tsunamis Typhoons Hurricanes Sometimes you can't help but ask, "Are we too late to save the environment?" Well Vocal Trash says it's never too late and we can still do our share in saving mother earth. One way is by helping to conserve trees. How can lime peels, coffee grinds, and elephant poo save [...]
PLAYING IT SAFE… (Part 1)
… A Dangerous Notion by Steve Linder While recently co-producing a corporate event, an industry colleague and I started to sift through a data-base of countless musical choices when all of a sudden, my creative counterpart threw their hands up and said, “Why don’t we just play it safe?” As if to say, let’s just [...]