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Watch this video on the complete recycliing of cardboard side, paper label, and metal rim and base from cardboard/ metal cans!

 
 


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Go Green! — Every little bit helps
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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”]


Go Green!, page 6
Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Go Green!, page 8
Going Green: Odds and Ends and Tidbits and...
Green tips you can use at home, at work, on vacation, just about everywhere! (page 7)

Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Recycling is probably the "Go Green" topic we hear about the most. But that doesn't necessarily mean just putting paper, glass, and plastic in your recycle bins. For example—


New Spiral Bulbs Are Hazardous!

As one U.S. senator pointed out, if someone dropped one of the new spiral energy-saving light bulbs in the Senate and it broke, the entire room would have to be evacuated according to hazardous-materials laws. Check your local hardware stores to find one that will recycle these CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps) for you.

...and see if they'll take batteries, too! AA, AAA, C, D, 9-volt all should be kept out of the landfills.

 

Recycle Plastic Grocery Bags

Check whether your local grocery store recycles plastic shopping bags; if not, find one that does. Then fill one of the bags with all the others and bring them to the store to leave off the next time you shop there. (Of course, you also have the option of purchasing reusable shopping bags.)

The plastic rain covers to protect home-delivered newspapers can also go in that bag; your store may have a list of other acceptable plastic, as well.

 

Replant Hanging Pots

Don't toss those hanging pots of dead plants in the trash in the fall. The plants should go in your compost or yard-recycle bags, the soil can go in your garden or under the bushes, and the pots can be reused in the spring. A bag of potting soil and four plastic "six-packs" of annuals from your plant store in three of last year's hanging baskets can give you three hanging baskets of flowers for a little over the store price of one! Use seeds instead of small plants, and you'll save even more!

 

Stop Wasting Grass Clippings

Collecting grass clippings and setting them out in waste-management lawn bags may seem like a good way of recycling, but it's probably costing you money for the bags. Lawn experts say it's better for your lawn to let the clippings "return to the soil," and the best way to do this is to invest in mulching blades for your mower! You'll be recycling directly into the lawn and conserving energy, as well — yours! (No more detaching, lifting, emptying, reattaching, dragging the bags to the curb!)

 

"Ground Those Grounds And More....

Want more Recycle tips? More to come later! Keep coming back!

For now, go to the next Go Green! section, Going Green: Odds and Ends and Tidbits and...

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