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If investing in a pricey dehumidifier to help remedy a damp room isn’t in the budget, try this simple idea to draw moisture out of a room: Use rock salt. The same de-icing salt used on driveways in the wintertime can help pull moisture out of the air. All you have to do is drill some holes into the bottom of a small bucket and fill it up with ...Read more

Perhaps it was too good a thing to last forever: free online returns. In 2019, nearly 5 billion pounds of waste from online shopping returns went to landfills, and that number almost doubled to 9.5 billion pounds in 2022. Turns out the items you return are often landfilled by the sellers instead of repackaged for sale, because it’s simply ...Read more

Plastic food-storage containers are a good reusable solution to keep leftovers fresh, but they're often susceptible to stains. Even with hand scrubbing in the sink or using a dishwasher, they can stay stained or retain an odor that seems impossible to remove. On a very hot, sun-intensive day, try using the sun’s rays to deodorize and brighten ...Read more

When looking for a place to refill your water bottle, the cleanest and freshest-tasting water comes from a seemingly unlikely source: a soda fountain machine. Besides making sugary sodas, these machines have an industrial filter that catches everything down to trace pharmaceutical drugs that may linger in tap water, and the carbonization process...Read more

If you have a traditional car that uses gasoline and you park in a garage attached to your home, there is one thing you should do to keep the air clean in your home: Minimize how long your car runs inside your garage. Even with the garage door open, running your car for just a minute can build up dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. And when you...Read more

Maybe you've heard of reef-safe sunscreens that are free of chemicals that harm coral reefs, but are you also investing in aquatic-safe mosquito repellant? Many insect repellants contain the powerful chemical DEET as their active ingredient. If yours contains DEET, never go into oceans, lakes or streams, where the DEET will wash off and poison ...Read more

The National Parks Conservation Association wants you to respect wildlife when visiting our national parks this summer. Many wild animals “crave the salt in people’s sweat,” so the NPCA advises taking special care of your sweat-soaked clothes, rather than leaving them out where animals can smell them. Wildlife like mountain goats will ...Read more

How many recycling bins should you have at your home? According to Waste Management, most Americans keep a recycling bin only in the kitchen. But a significant amount of recyclable waste is also generated in the bathroom and home office. Keep three bins, and empty all of them into the largest recycling bin on collection day. The simple step of ...Read more

Do you ever wonder why your trash hauler asks you to never bag your recyclables? Putting them in plastic bags would make them easier to haul to the recycling facility, right? In fact, no. Imagine thousands of bagged recyclables going to a recycling facility and the thin plastic bags clogging up the machinery. They get twisted in the gears, ...Read more