Small Scale Recycling

The logo designed by the family.

Sometimes you can create a small project just within your family that helps to make life a little better for this world. Every little bit helps, after all, especially if it raises awareness about what can be done, even on a small scale.

Tracy Tunwall and her children, Trae and Carl, started out by taking a trip to their local waste facility, where people throw out their discards, those items they don't want or need any more. In their neighborhood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, they had noticed a lot of things that people were throwing out after yard sales and estate sales. They knew that these items would just become part of the landfill, composed of other discards, that would just stay there and decay, ever so slowly, if at all.


In other words, in this world where we just throw stuff out, there's a lot of "stuff" that just sits there, maybe seeps into the soil, befouls our water, lets off fumes into the atmosphere, becomes part of the pollution problem, that our planet faces. What could they do? They were two kids and a mom, after all.

This little group came up with a plan to address the issue in their small corner of the planet. Trae and Carl offered to take these leftover, discarded items and salvage them. And the bonus that the neighbors received was not having to cart the "stuff" to the waste facility.

Tracy Tunwall explained, "They approached a couple of people already just to see what the interest level would be and everyone thought it was a great idea. The boys printed out fliers, which explained what their service was, also containing the name of this new service, LITTLEGREENPLA.NET. Tracy continued, "The plan would be to have the kids take the fliers to houses that were having garage sales and ask them to contact us at the end of their sale to set up a time we could pick up and redistribute items that are reusable or could be recreated into art or other functional items."

A garden setting made from discards.

With a small grant, the family was able to purchase a trailer, so that they could collect what remained at the end of local sales. Much of the products that they have remade include new settings for plants and inclusion of the discarded items as artistic backdrops in gardens. So, what was once junk and discards now serves as a way of beautifying the community.

An old toolbox turned into a plant container.

Thanks for information from this article on Pollination Project: https://thepollinationproject.org/grants-awarded/tracy-tunwall-littlegreenpla-net/; and the above link.

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