Cabinet Hardware With a Small Carbon Footprint

If you have looked over a dump in the recent past you know our waste issues in this country are becoming completely out of hand. It has a number of people wondering what they could do, on every level, to produce less waste and thereby leave a smaller carbon footprint. This informative article is approximately that and focuses on something you probably would not consider in regards to waste, cabinet hardware.

Cabinet hardware for the most part is relatively overlooked. How often do you really look at the pulls that open and close doors, drawers and cabinets in your house? Try this. Take a walk into your kitchen and count the amount of knobs, drawer pulls, and other bits of cabinet hardware which are in your kitchen. The sum total will probably surprise you. Now think if you had been just doing a little remodeling job and decided to change out all of that cabinet hardware. That's lots of waste!

So, how will you still begin redoing your kitchen or other cabinetry without having to be so wasteful? Well there are certainly a few options that could make you are feeling only a little better about remodeling:

Recycled Hardware - The first thing you are able to think of is if you are buying new pieces of cabinet hardware to purchase pieces that are made from recycled materials. That means these hardware pieces are created by materials which were kept out from the landfill in the very first place, so you are cutting down on the waste products tossed out by buying them.

Recycling Your Hardware - In addition to considering purchasing recycled hardware, what about making sure your hardware gets a new house? Because you never want it anymore doesn't mean it's not usable. So, before you toss out all those hardware pieces, why don't you bag all of them up together and let them have to a local charity that can use them or sell them to a person who can.

Reuse Your Hardware - Another option is to consider your cabinet hardware and see if you probably have to get something new. If the paint is peeling or you only don't like the color anymore, maybe you can strip them down and repaint them or restain them? The process is really not that hard, especially with hardware. Often you merely drop every one of the pieces in a bucket with the stripping agent and with a little scrubbing they're all clean and willing to be made into something new.

Sustainable Resources - Finally, if you can't find any strategy to use and need to buy something that is new and not recycled, something to consider is searching for sustainable resources. While this can not lessen the waste tossed out, it will at the very least lessen the impact on the environment. You see, some resources are hard to restore or take many, many years. Others, like bamboo, may be grown back easily and quickly and their use causes less of a direct effect on the planet.