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Post this list at work, on the fridge, in the purse, wherever you need a reminder to live more greenly. Compare notes with friends. Review your progress at the end of the week.
1 Use a fast food beverage cup until it breaks.
If you order to go, don’t quash the cup in the trash after a few sips. Those fast food cups might be used all day and then thrown out, reducing your dishwasher load and the soap required to go down the drain. Don’t use the cup once. Re-use at least once. Or bring a plastic cup to the franchise.
2. Use a bottle with a cap to mix something you might use a bowl and a spoon for.
Gravy, sauce, soup, dressing, drink mix, whatever. Use vinegar to clean it out, sterilize and get rid of bacteria. Mix up some green detergent or organic mouthwash. Gray water rinse to the yard. Save bottles for these uses instead of dirtying new glasses.
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3. Try cooking one night a week out of one cooking dish.
Plan your cooking for one dish meals. Use wrapping containers to season and prep. Transition all materials to recycle bins. Try to stay low salt and use as many organic products as possible.
The need for three to five dishes is a consumer advertising motif. Serving size should be a closed fist of protein with a spread hand of thin starches. The taste will set you free of highly seasoned fatty foods. Soups and stews are perfect.
4. Check the manufacture location of all your items before you check out at the grocery store. Try and replace something far away with a reasonable local alternative. You sponsor exhaust pollution otherwise. The less you buy from far away, the less those trucks roll on the highway.
5. Choose a beverage with a recycleable bottle over a “non” next time.
Know your plastic symbols and cartons and tins. Some drinks are not made of recyclable material. Alcohol and beer, some wine coolers and others may apply. If it can’t be recycled, you may want to rethink drinking it.
6. Buy new clothes to augment what you have to utilize rack drying as much as possible.
If you are a slave to the washer and dryer every four days, some shopping is in order. Try to have as much clothing to allow for day to day washing and natural drying. Separate light rinse from heavy gym clothes, etc. Basic casual wear and cotton undershirts should be dripping dry, not tumbling in a shrugged-off marathon of heat.
7. Learn how to iron properly and forgo the dry cleaners more often.
8. Carpool Dining
On your next dinner out, carpool to and from the restaurant with Rideshare people or neighbors, and return the favor. you dine more locally and save fuel and atmosphere pollution.
9. Try to recycle items before throwing out
List on Freecycle once a week.
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