Plastic is inexpensive, durable, and lightweight, so it makes sense that it’s used abundantly in manufacturing. Plastics are used to manufacture a staggering number of products we use every day – everything from food and beverage containers to trash and grocery bags and even children’s toys and diapers. But all this product has to go […]
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Seven Tips for Honoring Earth Day
It’s that time again, and while most people love trick-or-treating or spreading yuletide cheer, we couldn’t be more excited to celebrate our favorite holiday of the year – Earth Day! Earth Day is a time to celebrate the planet, raise awareness about our need to protect it, and reflect on what we can do to […]

Six Tips for Getting Your Eco-Friendly Garden Ready for Spring
Eco-gardening can impact energy use, reduce common waste and slow down climate changes. Learn more from Carolina Fibre.

Fall in Love with Recycling This February – Five Benefits of Recycling
Carolina Fibre looks for ways in everyday life to show love to our earth and protect the environment. And one of our favorite ways is through recycling.

Five Eco-Friendly New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s resolutions are usually the perfect balance of terrifying, overwhelming, and cliché. They hold you accountable, will push you out of your comfort zone, and force you to reevaluate your life. Or it’s just the opposite, and you come up with something stale and boring – a goal you will forget about in two […]

Five Tips to Make Your Holidays a Little Greener This Year
The holidays are here and with it an opportunity to have fun while creating an environmentally friendly celebration. Make your holidays joyous in spirit and gentle on the environment with these five tips from Carolina Fibre!

The Many Benefits of Fiberon Decking
Many companies worldwide recognize the many issues with the way we approach waste and recycling, so they are stepping up with innovative solutions. This new approach these companies are taking is pushing for positive change in their industries and inspiring hope for sustainability. One company leading the charge of innovation is Fiberon Decking. Fiberon is a […]

Four Essential Summer Recycling Tips
In most states, summer is beginning to wind down, but in southern North Carolina, we are still in the thick of it. Our weekends are still filled with day trips, beach days, and pool time. It adds up to a lot of time spent outside in a beautiful environment, and we want to be sure […]
Seven Tips for Green Spring Cleaning and Recycling
Its spring and that means it’s time for a fresh start! This season focus on using cleaning habits that help the environment by only using safe cleaning products, recycling instead of trashing, and donating to charity so that your items can be reused. If your goal is to reduce clutter this year, combine that with […]

6 Ridiculously Easy Ways to Help the Environment
Using expanding technology can make our lives easier, but it can also damage the environment. Much of our technology releases toxic greenhouse gasses and other emissions that are harmful to the planet, especially most transportation technology. Thankfully, as people become increasingly aware of our technology’s impact on the earth, we’ve used innovation to create new […]