Eco Friendly Tips & Toxic Dangers in your home

Reuse your shopping bag - When shopping, it saves energy and waste to use a reusable bag instead of accepting a disposable one in each shop. Waste not only discharges CO2 and methane into the atmosphere, it can also pollute the air, groundwater and soil.

Switch to green power - In many areas, you can switch to energy generated by clean, renewable sources such as wind and solar. In some of these, you can even get refunds by government if you choose to switch to a clean energy producer, and you can also earn money by selling the energy you produce and don't use for yourself.

Collectively, we can reward environmentally responsible practices, discourage waste, help close the recycling loop and reduce the amount of toxic materials entering our ecosystems and homes.

Shop like your life depended on it!
Buying products and services that don't harm the environment is one of the most powerful choices a consumer can make.

What are the risks with normal household products?

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Find Recycling locations near you at Earth 911

Paper, 2 – 5 months
Cigarette, 1 – 12 years
Plastic bags, 10 – 20 years
Plastic six-pack holder rings, 450 years
Aluminum cans 200 - 500 years
Plastic Bottles 70 - 450 years

What is biodegradable?

Recycling

Recycling is the third R of the three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Recycling means taking a product or material at the end of its useful life and turning it into a usable raw material to make another product.

Be sure you’re recycling at home. You can save 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide a year by recycling half of the waste your household generates.

Reduce

Avoid buying unnecessary or overly packaged goods
Instead buy food products 'loose' and re-use any plastic bags
Take a packed lunch to work or school in a re-usable container
Donate magazines to waiting rooms at your hairdressers or dentist 

Reuse 

Re-use carrier bags or buy and use your own bag each time you go shopping
Re-use containers especially in the case of cleaning products which are refillable 

Recycle 

Compost vegetable peelings, cut flowers, shredded newspaper, and grass cuttings
Take unwanted clothes, shoes, books and eyewear to charity shops
Recycle any laser/Ink printer cartridges
Take aluminum foil, old phone books, glass bottles and jam jars to your local recycling point

Kick the Plastic Water Bottle Habit

Ever wonder where most of those plastic water bottles go that we knock back from every day? Into landfills, where they live on and on and on and on.

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Ever wonder where most of those plastic water bottles go that we knock back from every day? Into landfills, where they live on and on and on and on. Exempt from many state deposit laws, and most often used away from home, where recycling bins are scarce, the majority of water bottles do not make it into the recycling stream.

Not only do they accumulate and stress landfills, they are made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a petroleum product, and their manufacturing process uses oil, a nonrenewable energy source, and increases CO₂emissions.

So kick the plastic water bottle habit. That way you can avoid the controversy over chemicals leaching from both hard and soft plastics into your water, even at room temperatures.

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