The most important rule is applied to the amount of garbage, you reduce it.
New in bulk as much as you can. Avoid overly packaged convenience food, since much of the material ends up in landfills.
Buy products in returnable bottles, recycled, reusable containers - each is better than the other. If possible, buy concentrated products (soaps, detergents and beverages)
Reuse of materials in your house - mugs, tote bags, plastic bags.
Buy containers that can be re-buy - betterTo use plastic than aluminum foil.
Pay attention to the packaging. Some red and yellow pigments containing cadmium, which can pollute groundwater.
Use your own bags when shopping (if possible) and do not try to bag items, do not need to in order to be packed in bags.
Compost garbage (if your community allows it) along with leaves and grass clippings.
Do not buy what you do not need. Sales of used items or donate to charities instead of throwing them away.
When you buy appliances, lookfor the Energy Star seal by the Environmental Protection Agency. Buy good quality of equipment and other products. Maintain it. Cheap equipment is not used, the creation of more junk.
Stop junk mail (catalogs, brochures, advertisements and other ailments), you do not want. Please read more in websites like "Consumer Assistance (DMA).
Avoid using disposable items when you can use open-ended. For example, drink from ceramic cups and mugs instead of paper / disposable cups.
Make cleaning cloths fromSave your old clothes and paper towels / napkins.
Recycle:
If your community recycles metal, you need to wash and recycle cans. This reduces air pollution, mining and use of energy to manufacture new cans.
Recycle glass and plastic. Buy cooking oil in the glass of the plastic used (in bottles of cooking oil can be produced when pollutants produce). My recycling company will determine what can plastic containers - are often just recycled beverageContainer.
Do not discard glass, not the recycling bin in the glass can be recycled. Window glass containing a chemical impurity, while the drinking glass has a different melting point than a bottle.
Recycle paper. But make sure that removing the glossy advertising in the newspaper.
Encourage your office to recycle white paper.
Recycle old magazines, if possible, or they lead to a friend, nursing home, school oradded.
Recycle foam "peanuts" in your mailing system, or if you are shipped the next package.
Do not forget to recyclable products such as motor oil, tires and cars. Every year, people dump used engine oil drains down just enough to 10 Exxon Alaskan spills.
Recycle your unwanted books, giving them a library, school, church, thrift store. You can also donate to organizations that the books to developing countries. Do a research on such an organization and they want to contact them for furtherInformation.
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