Local Recycling, Upcycling Retail, & Custom Teas

Happy holidays everyone!  We hope you all are staying safe and healthy and having a chance to enjoy some festive cheer whether you are staying close to home, are hiking the hills, or are visiting with a few close friends and family. 

If you are in a position to buy gifts this year, please consider shopping at our local small businesses.  Especially the ones that are striving to be sustainable and make our little part of this planet a kinder and safer place for us all.  We would love to have time to share all of our local green businesses in this episode, but instead we have put together a special webpage that includes lots of local businesses that have great green gifts to consider.  Please visit https://www.gogreenlocally.org/local-green-gifts.  If you know of some other businesses that you think should be added then please contact us at [email protected] and we’ll consider adding them.  Even after the holidays we would like to leave this page up for birthdays and other special occasions that you might need to buy for.

1. Well 2020 has been a challenging in so many ways. Part of that challenge has been trying to avoid extra waste that we don’t want to be creating.  To learn more about some of the changes in the Reno/ Sparks recycling program, we are talking with Kim Rios with KTMB. 

https://www.ktmb.org/recycle

2. An interview with Andrew Frank with Space Cadet a nonprofit in Reno that is recycling retail display fixtures new local businesses

https://www.cadetspace.org/

3. We talk with Jamah Dacus with BlendBee a specialty loose leaf and custom tea company located in Sparks.

https://blendbee.com/