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Recycling: Are You Doing Everything You Can?
from:It may come as a surprise to you, but there is a really good chance that the town or city you live in offer a service you may not have heard of; an energy audit. Cities and towns all over the country have started doing this, where an auditor comes to your home and goes through your living space and helps you to see where you could make changes that will not only help you conserve energy but will help you save money! What a bonus it is to save money by doing the right thing.
There are so many changes you can make in your home to impact the way we recycle and in the end, will help you keep some of the money in your pocket.
Having recycling bins set up so that you can properly sort the items that are recycled is a great first step. That activity alone can cut down greatly on the items that end up in the landfills rather than where they can be recycled.
Keeping your televisions, DVDs, stereos and computers plugged in to a power strip or surge protector rather than directly into the wall and then turning off the power strip will cut back greatly on power "leaks" that can cost you money on your utility bill. Being aware to turn these items off, is the first step, and then having them plugged into the power strip will just further the action for saving money and energy.
Don't leave a light on when you walk out of a room and no one else is in there. And have you changed your light bulbs from the traditional ones to the compact flourescent kind? Did you know that the newer lights use 75% less energy to run and they will out live a traditional light bulb by up to 10 years? Make the changes that need to be made in your home.
Don't run the dishwasher or the washing machine unless they are full. It's a waste of energy and water to run a cycle through the dishwasher when it's only half full. Don't turn it on until you have a full load to wash and then just wash them all at once.
Use microfiber cloths for cleaning all kinds of surfaces like furniture, counters and sinks. The bonus is that these items can be tossed into the washer and are perfectly able to be reused again and again. Think of the savings in paper towels alone! Talk about a win-win; if we use fewer paper towles, then that means fewer trees need to be cut to make them in the first place. How can we go wrong with thinking like that?
Take shorter showers and see if you can pick up a shower head that is a water-conserving item, already in place, that will save you money and you'll never even notice the difference during your shower.
There is so much you can do in the efforts to recycle, just be sure you're doing your part.
Plastics Recycling News
Commerce City Company Starts Recycling Heavy Plastics
Commerce City-based Alpine Waste & Recycling will start taking heavy plastics for recycling, the first company in Denver to do so.
Read more...Plastics recycling this weekend
There’s a place to take those clean, empty Type 1 and Type 2 plastic containers this weekend, as the SAVE Foundation and several others stage their bi-monthly plastics collection.
Read more...ECO Plastics calls for 'loud and clear' recycling message
Jonathan Short, boss of ECO Plastics, has stressed the need to focus on recycling the 300,000 tonnes of plastic bottles which go to landfill every year and for the industry to communicate the recycling message more effectively.
Read more...Madison residents can now co-mingle more types of plastics to recycle
MADISON – The borough has expanded the types of plastics residents can co-mingle for recycling.
Read more...Putting the fizz into plastics recycling
As one the leading brands in the world when Coca-Cola does something it doesn't do it by halves.
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