I spent part of my Saturday in a wasteland–an e-wasteland, that is. You see yesterday was the household hazardous waste drop-off day for my county, a day when you could get rid of items that would cause lots of toxic problems if you’d tossed them in the trash. Since I’d missed the day last year, [...]
Today I happened to clean out under my bathroom sink, the place where I store all of our medicine. I’d decided that, with school out, it was high time to freshen up everything that was expired–from notebooks my kids no longer need to the medicine with an expiration date from two or three years ago. [...]
Recently, my daughter did a science report on mercury (lower case, not the planet), the element whose periodic table abbreviation is Hg. As far as I knew mercury was just that silver liquid that appears in old-fashioned thermometers, but thanks to her report I learned that mercury also shows up in certain kinds of light [...]
Even though my 10-year-old daughter got a new RAZR phone six months ago (purchased with her own money, thank you very much), I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that she’s asking for a new cell phone for Christmas. For starters, to her that RAZR is so, like, yesterday, and having discovered all of the phone’s [...]
It’s week three of composting, and I’m amazed at how much less trash we have. When you’re not tossing cucumber peels, watermelon rinds, apple cores, coffee grounds and bread crusts in the garbage can, it really adds up. According to an Environmental Protection Agency website on composting, food scraps and yard waste make up almost [...]
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