From the first day, you leave the hospital with your newborn, through the first several years of their lives, safety car seats are a critical aspect of your everyday routine. You can’t imagine life without it. It goes everywhere you do. Then just like that, as your kids outgrow the infant, the toddler, or the booster seats, the safety seats which have been a constant reassuring presence in your child’s life go from being extremely important to extremely inconvenient. Now it’s just taking up space in a garage or attic, collecting dust, adding to the clutter. You’ll look at

Every year in the US, about 10 to 12 million children’s car safety seats are sold , however it is estimated that only 10% are recycled at the end of their life. Used car seats are needlessly thrown in landfills, and eco-conscious consumers are left asking the question of how to recycle a car seat. Throwing those car seats away adds up to roughly 180 million pound of recyclable materials that get taken out of the supply chain annually. Car Seat Recycling created child safety seats recycling solutions to help environmentally conscious brands and consumers safely recycle used or

If you’ve got kids, you know that there is one constant with them: they are always outgrowing things. Clothes. Toys. Furniture. All of these things have a lifecycle associated with the development of your children. And now that the kids have grown out of them, just like their old clothes and toys, that car seat is probably taking up storage space on an attic or garage. It’s time to let go of that old stuff, but just in case you need a better reason than just freeing up garage space, here are the top 4 reasons when you should dispose

Recycling is a common practice these days as it is for one reason: convenience. When recycling programs were in their infancy, people had to take aluminum cans to collection facilities and pre-sort all of their recyclables. Now, there is a big blue bin in just about every driveway in the United States. The easier you make something; the more likely people are to do it. So, what happens to those “ difficult to recycle” items in our houses? They end up in the landfill or are incinerated, no matter how much recyclable material they are made with. Infant car seats

Child safety seats are an absolute necessity for all parents, but what happens when your child outgrows them? In most cases, they are simply stowed away somewhere in an attic or garage, or more than likely, they are sent off to the landfill. With as many child safety seats are in circulation – the environmental impact of all that waste is staggering. Let’s break down the numbers: How many used child safety seats are in the US today? The actual volume of used car seats that need to be safely disposed of, is a not readily available statistic. However, one