Toxins from everyday products are simply recycled through our air conditioning unit back into our airtight house over and over again. You could be breathing toxic air and never know it.

One of the biggest challenges with indoor living is keeping toxins out of the air.

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When it was built, the shores of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal were home to bustling industries. Now the canal is now one of the most polluted waterways in the U.S.

Rent-a-Green Box, serving private residences and businesses, calls itself the first zero-waste pack-and-move company in the country, and claims to save the consumer 50% on cost and 20 hours on time involved as compared to traditional moving methods.

The biggest current trend of in reuse? Upcycling, according to author K.B. Keilbach. Upcycling simply takes something, cleans it and uses it for something else.

Recycling aluminum cans helps you do your part in saving the environment, but the cans also can lend a helping hand to charities.

If you start to feel guilty just thinking about packing up your belongings for a move because of all the waste it produces, then Rent-a-Green-Box just may have the solution for you. The Southern California-based company creates moving and packing supplies made completely from recycled landfill waste, and its Recocube packing peanut is just one of many offerings.

In the last 20 years, we’ve gone from home-phone voicemail, to car phones, to expensive cell phones, to laptops, to cheap cell phones that are basically laptops… and the technological advancement list rolls on and on.

Simply put, a public plaza gives people a place to sit and hang out. It’s an open area, often filled with plants and fountains, along with other outside decor. They are mostly found in bigger cities, but a few have found their way into up-and-coming cities.