This is easy folks, and I know you all do it. Yeah, it takes some time, but how much more time do you need on facebook when you could be doing something really important. Seriously, it’s just like brushing your teeth–recycling materials, redirecting resources, re-purposing your undervalued stuff! Of course, up until this age of abundance, average people were always in this frame of reality.
- Having a surplus of water will make you feel like a king AND save your local water supply
My Mom was recycling newspapers once a month in the 70’s. They stacked up along the garage walls along with magazines (not the Nat Geo however) Then were loaded into the station wagon & taken to a local department store parking lot waiting with a tractor trailer & crew. It’s no wonder it made sense to her–she lived through WWII; She took all old clothes to charities, had old furniture picked up by goodwill, composted, and probably more things like that than I know. But it made sense to me too because I can’t really comprehend how a landfill works. Can you? There must be a way to recycle something or perhaps we shouldn’t be using it. Therein lies the reduce–don’t buy it or acquire it unless you really need it. And let’s get creative on how we reuse…here are a few more of mine:
-Get familiar with the local thrift shops and what they can use or resell.
-Give old crayons and art supplies to day care centers
-Give wearable clothes to any of the many charity stores
-Give old clothes only worthy of rags to AmVets
-Install rain barrels–not easy for car washing, but great for gardening & washing stuff outside
-See if you have a local bicycle recycle program for the kids bikes
-How about old sneakers–http://www.nikereuseashoe.com/ They have recycled over 25 million Pairs of sneakers of all brands!!
-Donate construction and household building equipment & tools to your local Habitat for Humanity store.
-Give unused office supplies to your favorite non-profit agency
-See if your local Animal shelter will take unused medical supplies–ours took saline solution and heparin shots left over from home care.
— What are your best ideas?
Here’s part of our daily simple set-up:
Many resources to reuse! And I didn't even mention the wine and beer bottles that get second and third lives!
This is a blog post in response to the Castle Ink Paperless Scholarship 2012. http://www.castleink.com
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