The Middle R Reuse This one is pretty simple. Basically, what you want to do is extend the life of whatever you can, for as long as you can. A few examples are: Giving away clothes instead of throwing away clothes. Fixing appliances when they break or ordering replacement parts instead of just buying a [...]
The TerraPass is a very cool project that is trying to “prevent global warming, reduce carbon dioxide pollution, promote alternative energy” by getting car owners to take responsibility for the amount of carbon dioxide your car’s emissions produces. What you do is go to their site, which I have a link to above, calculate your [...]
The First R Reduce Basically what this means is cut down on the amount of waste/trash you create. So much trash is created because of LAZINESS and because we buy into marketing ploys that play off of our laziness and try to sell us products that are convenient and easy to use. Let’s not be [...]
Ok. I know this is very basic, but I continue to find people who don’t Recycle or Reduce or Reuse. Aaaaahhhhhh! In response to this need I am going to make three posts in the next few days on how to reduce, reuse, and recycle.