Tips for Decluttering Your Home in the New Year

It’s almost a new year, which is a great time to start fresh. What better way to do that than by decluttering your home? In the last few years, more of us have begun working consistently from home, which means our spaces are performing more roles than they used to. It...

Breaking Down Compost

Besides nourishing your soil, compost serves another purpose- to reduce food waste in landfills. Learn more from Western Elite about why it’s important to be mindful of how much food we’re dumping in the trash. What Happens to Food in Landfills Did you know that food...

What Does Going Zero Waste Mean?

Go Green! Zero waste! Carbon footprint! What do these terms mean when it comes to waste and recycling? At Western Elite, we are big fans of reducing, reusing, and recycling. Let us shed some light on the concept of zero waste. In a Nutshell – Conservation To be...

Do We Have a Trash Problem?

One of the most famous episodes of the original series of Star Trek is called “The Trouble with Tribbles.” It shows the crew of the Enterprise coming into contact with a species of cute, furry balls called Tribbles. Unbeknownst to them, however, the tribbles reproduce...

The Science of Decomposition: Organic vs. Non-Organic

One of the questions that is asked most often when people inquire about a dumpster rental is “what happens to all the trash?” For the environmentally-minded among us, they might worry about what ends up where; will the entire load be tossed onto a landfill, or are...

Cleaning Up Our Act: Following the Litter Laws

Perhaps Smokey the Bear said it best with his environmental motto, “only you can prevent forest fires.” The message was simple, yet illuminating. There, in the woods outside town, or among the desert shrubbery, or even in the overgrown thickets behind your home, the...