Waste reductionDiaper alternatives Forum discussionEvery day more than 50 million disposable diapers end up in landfills. It can take over five hundred years for them to decompose. You can reduce that amount by using cloth diapers, flushable diapers and training your child to use a potty as early as possi ... Packaging reductionForum discussionAlmost third of all municipal solid waste in US is generated from packaging-related materials, and about 3% of all US energy consumption comes from the production of packaging materials. Packaging makes up more than half of all the plastic waste and 75% o ... Buying recycled productsForum discussionBuying products made from recycled materials can be just as important to the environment as recycling itself. To make sure that the paper and bottles you've sorted and recycled so carefully don't end up in the landfill after all, it is important to buy p ... Reducing junk mailForum discussionAccording to Native Forest Network, every year an average person in USA receives over 500 pieces of junk mail that totals 4.5 million tons of paper. To save water, trees (100 million of them annually), gas that's used for shipping it around, and your own ... Reusing shopping bagsForum discussionCarry your own shopping bags to avoid disposable plastic and paper bags. It takes 12 million barrels of oil to produce the 100 billion plastic bags Americans use each year. In landfills, it takes 500 to 1,000 years for plastic bags to decompose. Paper ba ... Banking paperlesslyForum discussionAbout 40 billion paper checks still are written annually in the U.S. 19 billion bills, totaling 533 million pounds of paper were delivered to American households in 2006. Delivering all that required nearly 235 million gallons of fossil fuels and created ... Living christmas treeForum discussionEvery year in December many people wonder if it's more earth-friendly to get a live Christmas tree or an artificial one. Some may feel guilty about cutting down a tree. Yet, it's important to remember that most trees have not been taken from a forest, ins ... Buying used productsForum discussionBuying used products is a good way to make sure that things that are in good shape but not needed for the original owner can have a second (or third) life in somebody else's home. This helps save valuable resources and keeps things away from landfills. Of ... Clothes disposalForum discussionMillions of tons of clothes end up on landfills every year. Most of them are synthetic, but even the biodegradeable ones can't decompose in the anaerobic environment, so they will sit there for centuries. There are ways to make sure your old or unwanted ...  |
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