I recently started to take a look at what I throw away or recycle in a week. My personal inventory included plastic bags, wire coat hangers, glass bottles, small containers, etc. Even though I recycled some of these, we all know that process of recycling itself spends energy and earth’s resources. Without much added effort on my part, I now drop off coat hangers at the dry cleaner, boxes at the local mail office and I use glass bottles for vases (that I can give as flower gifts for friends).
Here’s a great recycling tool from lime.com. Tell it what you want to recycle and it will tell you how to do it.
Lively Women* suggests visiting Pregnancy & Baby Blog as well as Unplugged Living for more great ideas around living green.
*Correction (8/15/07): It’s actually Babylune that wrote about these green ideas, not Lively Women. My apologies for any confusion. 
AND….I found a few tips for brides and simple ways to reduce waste at mywedding.com:
1) Scrap the Wrapping Paper: Take the Waste Out of the Wedding Shower
2) Ideas for a Green and Responsible Registry
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Erika | 13-Aug-07 at 11:41 am | Permalink
Girl, am LOVING your blog. Thanks so much for offering such great tips and links. I’ve been thinking about my recycling lately, too. Especially because when I wrote “Raw: The Uncook Book” with Juliano and hung out with him on a commune in Ojai, he regularly whipped up feasts and then pulled out the trash can to show me that it was still empty after all of his preparations. I need to do more of that.
Anyway, you go Becky!
Karen Beth | 14-Aug-07 at 12:13 pm | Permalink
Love your blog! What great tips for recycling too!
Kate | 15-Aug-07 at 12:00 am | Permalink
Actually, it was Babylune, not Lively Women, but thanks for linking to my site even if the title is wrong.
Jen | 15-Aug-07 at 10:06 am | Permalink
I love your idea to give flowers in a glass bottle and what a lovely arrangement in the photo.
Thanks, Rebecca!
monique | 15-Aug-07 at 11:22 am | Permalink
thanks for highlighting our recycling tool — we hope you all find it useful and are trying to create more tools just like it.
Rebecca | 15-Aug-07 at 8:46 pm | Permalink
So sorry for my blunder Kate. I’ll make an update to my post. That’s what I get for doing too many things at the same time.
Thanks for your comments guys.
kim | 15-Aug-07 at 9:16 pm | Permalink
got heavily intro’d to the green scene while working at readymade- there is so much out there, so many options- and getting a little creative is at the heart of much of it.
Jen / domestika | 16-Aug-07 at 12:10 pm | Permalink
It’s amazing how these changes can fit into your lifestyle, no big hassle (and maoh-man, that’s a gorgeous flower arrangement!)… I think Kim put her finger on the key in her comment here:- “getting a little creative is at the heart of it”!