Making Quick Compost in Minutes

Making compost for your garden doesn't have to be a long drawn out process, you can make a quick compost mixture right from your kitchen using your blender in a matter of minutes.

Put fruits and vegetables peels into the blender, add water and process. Spread the resulting mixture around fruit trees, in flower pots and in your vegetable and herb gardens.

This is great idea for apartment dwellers who still want the benefit of composting but do not have the room to compost or who do not wish to worm compost. We love to hear from our fans, have you tried a quick composting method before? What do you think?

Ontario Industry Rolls Old Tires Into Green Products

 

It's been a while since we blogged at Think Green Live Green. However, while we were doing our vehicle service this week, we saw a brochure about a free tire-recycling program, which is a great blog topic.

The Ontario Tire Stewardship is an industry-funded organization that manages The Used Tires Program. This is a province-wide initiative in Ontario to collect and recycle used on-road and off-road tires. Ontarians can recycled up to 4 used tires each without charge or having to make a purchase, with Registered Collectors.

The program will divert scrap tires away from burning and landfill sites to the 3R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) for such uses as: hockey rinks, rubber automotive parts, rubber mats, rubber products made in playground equipment, rubber shingles, rubber mud flaps, rubberized asphalt and more. This will make it easier for Ontarians to recycle their used tires and will help to eliminate the illegal dumping of scrap tires.

Which tires are included in the Program?

• passenger tires, small RV and trailer tires, light truck tires and temporary spares
• motorcycle, golf cart
• small utility
• free rolling farm tires
• medium truck tires
• agricultural drive and logger skidder tires
• forklift and construction equipment tires
• small, medium, large and giant off the road tires

For more detailed information about The Used Tire Program, visit Ontario Tire Stewardship.