As I begin to work on ways to improve WithaSouthernTwist.com for my readers I thought I’d look at how I can add value to your day or perhaps help you accomplish a task. So a good way for me to evaluate this was to take a look at the many Web sites that I use the most and why I [...]

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Okay I’m the ‘queen of recycling.’ I feel that we should recycle everything that’s able to be recycled and try to generate as little trash as possible. Since plastics dominate so many of the consumer products that we use on a day-to-day basis they also generate a lot of our trash. Most curbside recycling programs [...]

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Radio Shack (or their newly released name “The Shack”—now that’s a whole name change marketing disaster discussion for another time) is part of a national program called Charge Up to Recycle, allowing customers to drop off used rechargeable batteries at any of our over 7,200 stores nationwide. This includes:
• Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd)
• Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH)
• [...]

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Last year, The Home Depot launched a consumer compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb recycling program at all 1,973 The Home Depot locations. This free service is the first such offering made so widely available by a retailer in the United States and offers customers additional options for making environmentally conscious decisions from purchase to disposal.
At [...]

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