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© Richard G. Mills, ThinkMills.com, ThinkMills.info
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[Many
of these tips were first written for and published
on the Bourbonnais
Township Park District website
as part of its “BTPD is going green~” promotion”]
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Green
tips you can use at home, at work, on
vacation, just about everywhere!
(page 4)
Rethink,
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Rethink, Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle; we hear this expression a lot these days, but
what does it really mean?
• Rethink
your priorities and needs and how you can do and use things
to make yourself and the world better!
• Reduce your use of unnecessary materials
that end up clogging our nation's landfills. (Do you want
a landfill next-door to you or under your newly built
house, perhaps?)
• Reuse and/or repurpose items rather
than throwing them out.
• Recycle: Purchase items made from recycled
products and items that have the number triangle showing
they can be recycled.
First, let's look at "Rethink":
Rethink,
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Many
of us, especially those born during the so-called "baby
boom," are used to abundance and the era of disposable
everything! But today, we need to rethink what this extravagant
living is doing to the world around us. For example—
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Recycling
Saves You Money!
So you're not that keen
on being green? Well, think again: recycling saves you
money! — If your waste-management provider offers you
free recycle bags, get them and use them! You can probably
cut down the use of garbage bags you purchase by a third
if you shred all your mail (for identify-theft protection)
and put it and newspapers and broken-down cardboard boxes
into a recycle bag, with glass, plastic, etc., in another.
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Don't
Touch the Hollow or Fallen Tree
If you have a large property
with some of it "in the wild," think twice before
cutting down that hollow tree or removing the fallen one.
As long as they present no danger to humans or property,
leave them where they are! Hollow trees and fallen limbs
are needed as habitat to a variety animals and insects.
Removing or recycling them may seem like a good idea at
first, but you are also removing the homes and potential
homes of your wildlife helpers!
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Don't
Bag — Compost!
Are you recycling your
yard waste and dragging expensive recycling bags filled
with raked leaves, etc., to the curb? Save money on bags
and mulch by creating a compost area in the corner of
your back yard or behind the shed. See "Compost
Composition" on page
8.
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Refill
That Water Bottle
Get a water purifier
faucet or pitcher, and filter your tap water. Then take
your empty designer water bottle and fill it with self-purified
water. Chances are the water will taste as good and even
be purer than purchased water! You're saving money and
the environmental cost of trashing or recycling the plastic
bottles!
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"I
wish I'd Thought of That" And More....
Want
more "Rethink" tips? More to come later! Keep
coming back!
For
now, go to the next Go Green!
page, Reduce ► |
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