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Quick Green Tip: How To Recycle Your Car Seat

Consumer Reports has some cool info posted about how to recycle a car seat. Being that a car seat is mixed materials, it seems almost impossible to recycle, but apparently, if you rip that sucker apart it helps. Consumer Reports recommends you: Remove all fabric, padding, and screws. Disassemble the restraint. Use a screwdriver to [...]

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60% of child car seats found to contain dangerous substances

Lat week the nonprofit Ecology Center at the consumer-friendly site, www.HealthyStuff.org released the latest findings on toxic chemicals in children’s car seats, and the news is way less than good. May car seats were found to be safe, which is a perk, because it shows that car seat manufacturers can make non-toxic car seats. However, [...]

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P&G rolls out new eco-packaging

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has obviously never heard the line, “It’s what’s on the inside that counts.” Focusing instead on outer beauty, P&G just announced that they’ll be using renewable, sustainable, sugarcane-derived plastic on select Pantene Pro-V, Covergirl and Max Factor packaging. The new packaging, which will be rolled out globally over the next two [...]

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Welcome to Growing A Green Family

What is Growing a Green Family all about? When I first got interested in green living years ago I found a lot of green sites and blogs that made sense for individuals but not families in particular. That inspired me to help launch another green blog, Tree Hugging Family, that I’ve been writing at for [...]