5/14/09

Instead of buying the latest designer handbags (and wasting tons of money), why not rent them? Bag, Borrow or Steal is an online handbag version of Netflix: You pay a monthly membership and choose bags to borrow. Keep them as long as you want and return them when you want new ones. Learn more at www.bagborroworsteal.com.

5/13/09

College students are notorious for filling up their dorm rooms with found furniture, books and decorative accessories and then dumping it all when the semester is over. Instead of filling up trash heaps, Dump and Run (www.dumpandrun.org) coordinates collections of one college student's trash and helps the university raise money by selling the items to incoming new students. It's a win-win: Trash is diverted, money is raised, and new students save on items they need anyway.

5/12/09

Did you know most trash strewn on the street isn't from litterbugs, but from a gust of wind? Ill-fitting trash-can lids (or overflowing cans of debris) are the real culprit; wind blows trash away or a wild animal rips open a plastic trash bag, causing trash to stray all over. The solution is simple: Buy a trash can with a tight-fitting lid. Don't toss debris into overflowing public trash cans and (you know this) recycle whenever you can.