BV Trash Valet Blog

  • 3 Thanksgiving Clean-Up Tips
    November 12th, 2017

    Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of  year, full of quality time with family, football, and of course, delicious food. It can also be one of the most stressful times of year. Preparing for Thanksgiving is a chore. Cleaning up after ...

  • Waste Management for First Time Homeowners
    November 2nd, 2017

    Congratulations on your new home! As you may have already noticed, owning your own home comes with plenty of other responsibilities attached. You have mortgage payments to make, and you may have remodeling or HOA regulations to contend with. You ...

  • The Rise and Fall of Packaging Waste
    October 16th, 2017

    In the 1990s and before, the United States had a big problem with packaging waste. Think, after all, of how many packages the American household receives every day, whether it’s food packaging, appliances, or packages delivered to their door. It’s ...

  • Living the Zero Waste Life
    October 9th, 2017

    What is Zero Waste? It’s the ideal that all resources should be reusable so that nothing is wasted. A commitment to zero waste means changing your lifestyle, eating, and consumer habits to use natural, sustainable resources, and then recycling or ...

  • Decluttering for Fall Cleaning
    October 2nd, 2017

    You’ve probably heard of spring cleaning, but what about fall cleaning? The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) actually recommends that you do a major cleanse twice a year: once in the spring and once in the fall. In those six months ...

  • Whats Bigger than Texas – The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
    September 28th, 2017

    “Bigger than Texas” is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot to describe something that is astoundingly large. Of course, when someone says they have a pimple bigger than Texas or their neighbors have a swimming pool bigger than ...

  • What NOT to Recycle
    September 15th, 2017

    Recycling is an excellent way to make your world and your environment a better place simply by taking out the trash. It’s both environmentally and economically conscious, reducing the need for landfills, the need to use new, natural resources, and ...

  • How to Get Kids Interested in Recycling
    September 2nd, 2017

    It’s never too early to learn responsible habits to take care of our environment. Getting kids interested in recycling at an early age will foster the habit into their adulthood and strengthen the chances of them teaching their kids to ...

  • 3 Tips to Upcycle Before You Recycle
    August 23rd, 2017

    To “upcycle” something is to reuse it in such a way that makes it more valuable to you than it was before. If something is about to go into the trash, just about anything would be more valuable than it is to you at that moment.