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Did you know that 84% of all household waste can be recycled? Recycling is one of the easiest ways to go Green, yet makes a monumental impact to the environment. At a bare minimum, everyone should be recycling. Take care of the waste you create. Be eco-responsible.
Plastic bags are not biodegradable. Even if they say they are, they do not decompose fully. Also the ink is made up of cadmium, and is highly toxic when it is released. Whereas paper bags are reusable and biodegradable. If your purchase is small don’t take any bag, this alone could save hundreds of millions of bags. Bring a cloth bag when you shop, or use string bags.
Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours. One glass bottle. Think of the possibilities of that. That’s amazing. Think about what you can do…and do it! Recycling requires virtually zero effort, but has such a huge impact. You can recycle, starting today. You can make a difference. Starting right now, you can make a difference. I always say, responsibility builds character. Not to mention, being eco-cognizant is totally hot!
It’s Earth Day. It’s an attempt to bring cognizance to taking care of the planet.
It’s a day to recycle. It’s a day to change your light bulbs out for more efficient ones. It’s a day to change the filter in your air conditioner. It’s a day to plant a tree. It’s a day to conserve water.
Whatever you do today, make sure you do something for the planet. Then continue that habit tomorrow. And then the next day. And so on.
Been wanting to compost to reduce your garbage output, create soil for your garden, and save the planet’s eco system at the same time? Composting can be daunting and, admittedly, make a huge mess of your backyard.
Luckily, The Earth Machine does this for you in one contained unit. And, what makes it even better is the deal they have worked out with Hamilton County Environmental Services. They are offering a one day only sale on The Earth Machine for $35, (regularly $100.)
They will have two sale locations, one at Cincinnati State Technical College and one at Princeton High School. The sale will be on Saturday, May 8, 2010 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
If you aren’t lucky enough to live in Cincinnati, contact your county’s local environmental services and ask them about The Earth Machine.
The average American consumes five times more energy than the average global citizen or 10 times more than the typical Chinese.
If the typical Chinese consumer used as much oil as the average American uses, China would require 90 million barrels per day—11 million more than the entire world produced each day in 2001.
Source: Worldwatch Institute
Way to impress the pants right off of us, Los Angeles!
Los Angeles is going to start a new pilot program with RecycleBank that will compensate households for recycling! The hope is that the city’s recycling rate will go up from 65% to over 70%.
15,000 homes will be eligible for the program and the contents of their tagged bins will be weighed and recorded each week. Depending on the weight, residents earn points that they can redeem at businesses like CVS, Bed Bath & Beyond, and El Pollo Loco. The total tally can reach the equivalent of $400 a year per household!
Super-impressive initiative, LA! Cincinnati…take notes!
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Bottled water is not evil. Sure, it’s gotten a bad rap in the past few years…everything from plastic bottles taking over our landfills to causing cancer. In theory, those things are true, and yes, bottled water can be frowned upon in that regard.
Here’s the upside…keep bottled water out of extremely high temperatures, for instance, your car. Some scientist believe that the plastic can omit toxins into the water when the bottles are extremely hot, thus, perhaps, being the cause of breast cancer. Simply keep your bottles out of the heat and the plastic is otherwise harmless.
About the landfills…Our landfills are being polluted with millions of water bottles. Since the bottles take an estimated 600-1000 years to decompose, it’s an absolutely horrible idea to throw the bottles into the trash. Sadly, only 10% of plastic water bottles are recycled in the US. That means a whopping 90% are going straight to the landfills. It’s so easy to recycle. If you don’t…you should start.
At the end of the day, bottled water is not evil. It can be an evil if you aren’t properly disposing of the bottles and you are letting them sit in a car all day omitting toxins into the water. As long as you follow the rules, bottled water can be a very, very good thing.
