Each home generates more than 1 ton of trash every year. Yes, 1 ton. While recycling rates are improving in the US, the EPA estimates that an additional 75% of our waste could be recycled or composted [read more]

The EPA estimates that 75% of the trash most Americans throw out every day can actually be recycled -- a total of 75,000,000 tons of garbage that could be diverted each year, saving tax-payer dollars, and an estimated 167 million tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere! Recycling and composting your waste is an important step in reducing your Total Environmental Footprint. Start by reading EVO's Recycling from A-Z and then organize your recyclables with one of our favorite recycling bins. [read more]

Unless you're artist Stuart Haygarth trash just isn't pretty. An average American home tosses out 34 pounds of trash per week. All together, American homes send 100 million tons of trash to landfills each year. Just transporting and processing all that that garbage emits the CO2 equivalent of 42 million cars on the road; that's 220 million tons of CO2 every year! And the reality is that 75% of that garbage could either be composted or recycled. [read more]