Recycle

Did you notice graffiti in your neighborhood? Itching to report it? Philly has an app for that. How to report Graffiti in Philly:

Have you recently gone carless? Or perhaps you're trading your previously loved four-wheels for two? Regardless, there's a few local organizations who can benefit from donating your car. We tackle this topic in this week's Where Can I Wednesday column. Where to Donate your Car in Philadelphia:

Since I was in elementary school, I’ve been lectured about how to conserve water. Recently I caught wind about recycling water. What exactly does it mean to recycle water? The common definition relates to sewage water, which you and I can’t help with on an individual level. However, ordinary citizens can take water that would otherwise been wasted (i.e. shower water) and save it for non-drinking purposes. Think of it as a step beyond water conservation and to save on your water bill too! Here are 6 easy ways to recycle water:

If you’ve been cleaning your house lately (or packing for college like me!), you might notice that you have a lot of stuff lying around that you don’t exactly know what to do with. Lots of items often get thrown away, but wouldn’t it be better to have them be recycled or repurposed? So for this week’s Where Can I Wednesday, we’ve covered how to do just that! Here’s our guide to recycling some common household junk items:

Still have a stack of old VHS tapes taking up space in your house? Or even floppy disks, cassettes, and other old media from the yester-years? I’m guilty of letting those things store up in my closet to far too long. Looking to do some cleaning out, like me? Here are ways you can recycle or reuse your old media with this week’s installment of Where Can I Wednesday!

Summer means more than hot weather, shorts, and vacations; it’s wedding season. If you’re one of those lucky couples who tied the knot, then you likely have an excess of accessories and no clue how to get rid of them. Whether that includes flowers, a wedding dress, or ceremony decorations, we’ve got you covered in this week’s Where Can I Wednesday!

Are you leaving your 90s or 00s best-self behind and cleansing your memories form the era? (A few of those essential collections are becoming obsolete.) It's time to donate those used CDs in today's Where Can I Wednesday. And those scratched CDs? You can donate them, too!

If recycling or reviving your tennis balls appears like a hassle, no sweat. We have a few more ideas of how to prevent those tennis balls as landfill destinations in today's Where Can I Wednesday (part II).

I come from a tennis-playing family. My parents play. My brothers play. My grandparents, aunts, uncles and even a few cousins play. As you can probably imagine, we have A LOT of used tennis balls always lying around. My family tries to recycle or reuse most old tennis balls so they don’t end up in a landfill - like the 20,000 metric tons of that end up there each year. So what can you do with used tennis balls? We tackle this question in today's Where Can I Wednesday column.