Boiling food in plastic bags can be dangerous, but that's only if you choose the wrong type of bag. Look for one that's made from plastic that doesn't leach chemicals.

Knowing the expiration dates of household products can prevent them from becoming hazardous to your health. Here are the right times to replace 8 common household products.

Cod is an ocean fish that produces thick, meaty white fillets. These fillets are suitable for sauteing or broiling, but they are especially well known for their crispy outside and juicy inside when they are fried. You must be very careful when you defrost cod because the fillets are deceptively delicate.

Oregano is a member of the mint family. Though most commonly associated with Italian food, primarily because oregano is a perfect complement to tomato-based sauces, the Greeks are believed to have first used oregano for culinary purposes, notes the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

If you are a diabetic and you give yourself insulin injections, proper disposal of your needles and syringes is important to prevent injury to yourself or others.

The thermal conductivity of a material determines how good an insulator it is. The official definition of thermal conductivity is the quantity of heat transmitted through a unit thickness in a direction normal to a surface of unit area, due to a unit temperature gradient under steady state conditions.

Though you are unlikely to become rich from recycling cardboard, you may be able to earn some additional spending money by turning in your old boxes or scraps. You may also be able to take discarded or unwanted boxes from your place of employment.

Metals of all types are important and valuable resources. Although their natural supply or the supplies of elements that go into producing various alloys are fixed, metals are highly recyclable and reusable. Precious metals, such as gold and silver, are rarely, if ever, discarded.

The use of paper plates during picnics or big parties where washing and avoiding breakage of ceramic plates would be inconvenient may raise the question: what is the environmental impact of using paper plates?

As any parent can tell you, a child's fingerprints seem to spread to every surface in a household, no matter how diligent the parent is about cleaning. Unfortunately, these surfaces can include expensive ones like an LCD screen on a TV or computer.

Plastic bags used to be thought of as free, painless, no-brainer solutions to carry your groceries, and they even could be recycled as doggie-doo bags or bathroom trashcan liners.

A quick Internet search brings up numerous sites and articles about recycling the tabs on aluminum cans. Depending on what you read or who you believe, the tabs are more beneficial to recycle than the can. In a nutshell, they’re exactly the same when it comes to recycling. Both are equally valuable.