Simple Ways To Do Your Part

Though we often tend to look for big ideas that make a big difference, it is frequently the simple things that are the most effective. So along those lines, here are just a few simple ideas to help the environment:

• Recycling 1 aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours or a 100-watt light bulb for 4 hours – Rethink waste and start recycling those cans!

• Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year: about 680 lbs per person – Go paperless by paying bills online, by thinking before printing, by setting your printers and copiers to default to double sided copies!

• Every Sunday 500,000 trees could be saved if everyone recycled their newspapers – make Sunday your day to save a tree!

• Making recycled paper instead of new papers used 64% less energy and 58% less water – recycle paper and use products with high recycled content!

• A 15-year-old tree can make only about 700 grocery bags – a supermarket could go through them in under an hour! Make a difference – bring your own bags!

• When you throw something ‘away’, it doesn’t go away.  Trash is either burned, buried, recycled or dumped into rivers and oceans.  Rethink waste and recycle what you used to send to the trash – green is clean!

• For every mile you don’t drive, you save one pound of carbon dioxide.  Walk, bike, carpool, or use public transportation more often.  Save more, drive less!

• Thousands of computers, TVs , and electronics are left on overnight and generate tons of carbon dioxide per year.  Turn things off and get turned on to being green!