Are you tired of overfilling your recycling bins? Sick of separating out the cans, bottles and newspapers when you know everything will be dumped into the same truck? Little do most people know, back in 2008, Republic Services started a recycling pilot program that got rid of the bins and replaced them with just one large recycling container. The program has grown but is not offered everywhere.
Here’s the idea: Republic Services will provide every residence with one 96-gallon trash cart and one 96-gallon recycling cart. Republic Services will then provide …

Greener Vegas about to outgrow its good deeds
As I enter Starbucks on a particularly hot May afternoon in Las Vegas, I’m greeted with two weary but smiling faces, all but too happy to jump up and order me a cool and frothy whipped wonder. These faces are those of Greener Vegas founder and owner, Zach Delbex-Smith and chief information officer, Tim Stimple.
The understandably exhausted duo, along with their chief operating officer Cynthia Stimple and a small army of volunteers, have been on a relentless mission to demonstrate the importance of …

There are no shoeboxes of old birthday cards collecting dust in Sandy Schimmel’s closet. There are no take-out menus cluttering her kitchen counter or pieces of junk mail taking up space on her coffee table.
The colorful paper waste that most people can’t wait to shove in a drawer or a trash can, Schimmel is turning into art worth thousands of dollars.
The Phoenix-based artist collects drawers full of business cards, postcards, brochures and all types of junk mail, which she keeps arranged by color before she pain-stakingly chops and arranges them …