Tennesseans are giving more to the recycling stream instead of the waste stream, but buying recycled products completes the recycling practice. Buying recycled products completes the cycle. Tennesseans have reduced the amount of waste going to landfills by an average of nearly 25 percent, with some communities boasting a 40 percent reduction. Recycled materials are formed into products bearing a triple-arrow triangle on the packaging.
Thrift stores can always use clothing, especially warm coats and blankets.
Decorate home and office with natural greenery, such as pinecones, nuts, seedpods, dried flowers and branches or garlands of evergreen conifers, holly or magnolia. Wrap children's presents in the Sunday comics Remember to take trees and other greenery to the chipper after Christmas. Tennessee is one of fewer than a dozen states where solid waste collection fees are fixed, rather than being measured by the amount of waste consumers generate. The period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is typically the most burdensome on trash collectors and landfills.