Green Reasons/Ways to Borrow Instead of Buy
Posted by Laird on Dec 1, 2008
Green Reasons/Ways to Borrow Instead of Buy
The best way to cut down on the amount of materials it takes to make new things is stop buying so many. There are literally thousands of ways to borrow instead of buy if you just take the time to sit down and think about how easy it can be.
The library is a good place to start. They have books, Cds, and movies that you can borrow. You can go to the library and look at the latest magazines. Instead of having all this excess paper piling up in your home, take a trip to the library a couple of times a week and you will save your home from becoming littered with all the excess magazines and papers, not to mention the money you will save.
Newspapers are another way to save. Almost any newspaper today can be viewed online. This is another excellent way to keep from having so much extra paper in your home.
Rent your tools or borrow them instead of buying. Unless you do this for a living, the occasional tool for a project can be rented or borrowed and this keeps your home and garage free of many items that are only used occasionally.
Instead of having to make a trip to the grocery store for one item, borrow from a neighbor until your next regular time to go to the store then you can pay it back. If all you need are a couple of eggs for something you are making, instead of spending the gas to run to the store it would make much more sense to borrow.
Keep a small amount of cash on hand for anything that may come up. If you or your children or your husband need a few dollars for lunch or the boy who mows your lawn, it will be there, you will not have to run and cash a check and you can put back what you borrowed so it will be available for the next person who needs to borrow. This will not only save gas but it saves checks, especially if your bank charges per check.
If your home has become so cluttered you can hardly get through it, have a yard sale and get rid of things you no longer use. If you are keeping items because you may need them in the future, the time to get rid of them is now. If the occasion arises in the future when you need something you no longer have, find someone to borrow it from and then it will be returned and you will not have all the clutter in your home. This is one way you can limit your buying when it is something that you really do not use enough to justify the expenditure.
There are many ways you can utilize to save money by borrowing many things that are easier to borrow than to purchase. There are many items that are cost a lot to produce just for a one or two time use. The need to cut down on the overabundance of items being produced that end up being waste we have to dispose of is increasing. The best way to stop the waste is to cut down on what we purchase.
Can You Recycle Your Toothbrush?
Posted by Laird on Nov 3, 2008
Can You Recycle Your Toothbrush?
A Toothbrush has its own lifespan and we usually change one after just a couple of months, at the most. But what happens to the toothbrushes we keep on discarding? And if we strictly follow our dentist’s advice, we would have been tossing toothbrushes every quarter! In America alone, each year, around fifty million pounds of used toothbrushes end up in landfills!
But the good news is that, the Green stores and some with online availability option have come up with the eco-friendly versions of toothbrushes. Eco-Dent has come of with their Terradent variety of toothbrushes with replaceable heads. The beauty of this product is that, the head with frayed bristles could be changed for a fresh head, thus retaining the handle part, leading to bare minimum waste. Again, planned by the dentists, the Recycline Preserve one’s handle portion is manufactured from Polypropylene Plastic recycled from the second-hand cups of Stonyfield Yogurt! And after such a toothbrush completes its life, one has the option of either putting it back to Recycline or put it with other ecologically reprocess-able plastic items, into the blue bin. The polypropylene plastic toothbrush, so finds its application in the manufacture of long lasting durables as outdoor tables and deck. If you are not that keen on mailing back your discarded toothbrush, Carol Duvall, the Craft guru from HGTV has an idea! And the idea is that of curving bracelet for the young ones, rather than leading the old toothbrushes to landfills. Following Carol’s idea, you may try this idea as well. The steps involved sounds simple. Just one minute boiling (and removing the bristles) the toothbrush could be enfolded around a mini jar and let it cool down to the desired shape. Meanwhile, nature’s own product cellulose is also getting used in the making of recyclable as well as chic toothbrushes from the Radius stable. Radius has also come up with battery driven “Intelligent Toothbrush”, to reduce environmental hazards by using replaceable heads. They are even open to taking back the toothbrush after eighteen months, once is the battery goes off completely. But definitely, many of us don’t just want to shift from our regular mass-market toothbrushes. We all have our choices and preferences. So, here lays the solution to follow our heart while caring for the environment and recycling. Toothbrush Express, the online website designed towards retailing, has an approach much alike the Recycline, towards toothbrush recycle. You can get new toothbrushes delivered at desired intervals (may be monthly to even half yearly). And after use, you can post back your old toothbrush for recycling, through a pre-paid mailer. But off course, Toothbrush Express charges for this additional service.
Easy Things You Can Do To Help Stop Global Warming
Posted by Laird on Nov 2, 2008
Easy Things You Can Do To Help Stop Global Warming
You may not realize it, but there are many easy things you can do to help stop global warming. In recent years, it has been discovered that temperatures have risen approximately 1°F higher than the average. Over the next decade, we could see temperature increases up to 6 degrees higher. Small increases in the Earth’s temperature could result in a drastic change in the climate. This has the potential to impact the sea level in the oceans of the world, changes in the productivity of crops, changes in the air that we depend on, and the water we drink may also experience a change. In addition to this, our overall health and the standard economy will be drastically affected. This is why it is essential to know and understand that there are easy things you can do to help stop global warming.
1. One of the first things that you can do to contribute to preventing global warming is to start with your own home. Take a look at the lighting. Are you still using those standard bulbs? If so, it is time to pull them out and replace them! Go to the store and buy energy efficient bulbs and put them in all of your sockets. It has been estimated that for each bulb that you replace to the energy efficient type, you are saving approximately one hundred pounds of one of the major contributors to global warming – carbon!
2. The next thing that you can do is not only easy, but fun as well! Go to your local garden store and pick out a nice tree that will grow to be large and strong. Then, take it home and plant it! Trees help provide oxygen, and they also work to absorb all those nasty carbon dioxides that are in the air. In turn, they use it to convert into a source of energy. If you plant the tree near the home, you will find that it will eventually provide shade. As a result, you will save money on the costs to cool your home!
3. Next, you should focus on reusing the products that you purchase as much as possible. For example, if you have a bottle of bleach, and it is getting low, add some water and keep using it! It may not be as strong, but it will be just as effective! You should also focus on purchasing products that are recycled from other products in order to save money and reduce the amount of carbon that is emitted into the atmosphere.
If you work to follow these simple steps, you will be ensuring that the atmosphere receives as little pollution as possible from fossil fuels and other materials that are used to provide electricity, water, and the items that you purchase at the store. The important thing is to remember that you can make a difference in the world. This is especially true when it comes to global warming. These are just a few of the many easy things you can do to help stop global warming.
RECYCLE CDs FOR CASH
Posted by Laird on Oct 16, 2008
RECYCLE CDs FOR CASH (UK)
Turn your unwanted CDs into cash and help the environment at the same time. Thirty million CDs end up in landfill every year (ever wondered who goes around the world counting them?), So why not make some cash out of your instead? We’ve found you a great website that will pay between 25p and £3 per CD, and you can sell up to 250 at a time. It’s completely free to use, all you have to do is enter the barcodes of your CDs and the website will make a cash offer for each one, Once you accept the offer, they’ll send you a prepaid padded envelopes(recycled of course) to post your CDs and as soon as they’ve been checked you’ll receive payment. It’s also great fun to dig out all those embarrassing not so golden oldies and giving them just one last spin :) So get selling HERE
Amazing Plastic Bottle House
Posted by Laird on Sep 29, 2008
It’s no secret that our obsession with plastic bottles is turning into a bit of an environmental crisis, and no wonder, in the US alone 70 million bottles are purchased every day, yet only a measly 10 million are recycled. So, it’s good to see someone doing something useful with the bottles instead of adding to the giant mounds of garbage threatening to suffocate the planet.
Artist Jasmine Zimmerman has created a translucent sun dome from hundreds of empty recycled bottles, and intends to travel through various boroughs of New York with it to spread the word about reusing and recycling.
Jasmine says, “This year, Americans will drink more than 30 billion single-serving bottles of water. In the course of our busy lives this year, we will throw out more than two million tons of polyethylene terephthalate plastic bottles – an unintended byproduct of our everyday convenience.”
