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Making Our Planet a Home That is Fit for Everyone

At www.shopelectricityratestexas.com/shop_electricity_rates.html’ >www.shopelectricityratestexas.com you will find options for energy consumption. Options are an operative word in our current culture in every area of life. Options allow us to make intelligent choices, There is developing a crescendo of concerned voices singing in unison a song of restoration for our planet. There are many choruses to this contemporary and conscientious tune one of them being the creative exploration of ways to reduce the output of trash on a personal and family level. Again we are talking options. We can choose to be unbridled trash producers. Or we can select the option of restricting trash output and contributing to a cleaner planet. If we choose the latter obviously more prophylactic option, we find there are many ways to pursue our objective. Consider eliminating the purchase of plastic bottles wherever possible. There are now seas of plastic bottles floating in our oceans creating a barren wasteland of ugliness. If you must have a soft-drink, you can take a refillable container to the restaurant with you which you can use and return home for cleaning and reuse. Another option is to initiate a recycling program at your job place, school or community if one does not currently exist. Such programs usually originate with one concerned individual.

Ten Daily Changes For A Cleaner Planet

Trash is part of our daily lives. There’s no getting away from it, really. However, there are many things you can do daily to cut down on your trash.

Try to buy items with little to no packaging.

Instead of throwing away grocery bags every week, purchase a few cloth bags instead.

Try to use actual silverware and plates instead of paper plates and disposable cutlery.

It may smell, but a compost heap makes soil very fertile and makes use of your food scraps.

Use rags instead of paper towels.

Drink tap water instead of bottled water.

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Ways To Reduce Your Daily Trash Output

Resources are becoming scarce. Landfills are filling up. Everyone is looking for ways to reduce their footprint. One way is to diminish the amount of trash you create on a daily basis. A simple and easy to remember formula to follow is reduce, reuse, and recycle.

The first step to making your trash output smaller is to reduce the amount of trash you create. There are a number of smart, and economically advantageous ways. First, stop using paper towels. Instead, use cloth napkins at meals and microfiber clothes or Read the rest…

From Trash To Treasure: Creative Uses For Garbage

There is an old adage that goes “one’s man’s trash is another one’s treasure and it happens to be very true. So many people are so quick to discard things as trash, but they can actually be worth a-lot more than that. The environment has been under a crisis for quite some time now, so it is time that people think before they carelessly throw something away. Recycling is one of the many things that a person can with something that he or she perceives as Read the rest…

Is your Trash Art?

One of the main motivations for American’s taking out the trash is it’s unsightly nature, however, with the proper handling and care, even your trash can grow to accent your home in ways you may have never imagined. Perhaps not the excess food, considering the less than glamorous nature of the decomposition process and the resulting bugs who might make your kitchen their new outdoors, but before tossing out discarded items, consider your artistic flair.Found Art as the concept is known, centers around recognizing beauty in commonplace items generally passed over by common onlookers with a less keen eye for beauty. Artist Marcel Duchamp first discovered the genre in 1915, to describe an old bicycle wheel he had come across which was intrinsically striking, needing only slight modification to make it gallery worthy. From there Duchamp expanded his found art repertoire to include what once was a former urinal he titled “Fountain.” “Bottle Rack” was Duchamp’s first completely readymade piece of art, needing absolutely no alteration what so every from the street to display. Read the rest…

Reduce Waste, Find Your Old Belongings a New Home

Over the past century America has grown to become an extremely wasteful society. The portion sizes provided at not only fast food chains, but most American restaurants, are unreal. Or stop to think of how many times you’ve thrown away old clothes or furniture that could have easily been reused by someone else. American industries encourage the constant purchase of the newest product and disposal of the old, whether or not this is necessary. A culture change to incorporate more sparing and less-wasteful behavior should be considered, but encouraging simple habits such as recycling is a much easier change to come about. Read the rest…

Should the US use Waste Incineration for Energy?

It appears that European countries such as Denmark are finding ways to generate clean energythrough trash. Massive energy plants have been constructed that burn thousands of tons of household garbage and industrial waste per day. These ‘waste-to-energy‘ plants are way cleaner than conventional incinerators. As the plant converts trash into heat, dozens of filters catch pollutants (such as mercury or dioxin) and prevents them from being released into the atmosphere. Now, waste-to-energy plants are the main form of garbage disposal and a crucial fuel source in Denmark. The benefits associated with these plants include reduced energy costs, reduced reliance on oil and gas, and environmental benefits regarding less landfill and CO2 emission. Read the rest…

Don’t Forget the First Two Steps

“Reduce, Re-use, Recycle” is a longstanding, simple mantra to explain the process that protects the health of our planet. While the campaign to recycle has certainly caught on across the globe over the past 2 decades, the reducing and re-using parts of the three-pronged strategy are often overlooked. Here are some simple tips and reminders to make sure the first 2 steps are taken care of, before you even recycle your used goods.

1. The process should start at your purchase decision not when you are disposing of old items. A lot of similar products, both in price and function, are packaged very differently. Unless the packaging itself has some sort of intrinsic value you will want to hold on to as a keepsake, choose the one with the least packaging. Once your purchase is unwrapped, the box or bag it came in is more than likely to end up in the bin anyway.
2. A lot of grocery stores now offer re-usable bags, giving you an environmentally sound option when asked “paper or plastic?” Both paper and plastic bags require valuable natural resources for their production, so any way you can cut down on their usage is a step in the right direction. Read the rest…

How ‘Trashy’ is the United States

According to the EPA, the US has around 3,091 active landfills and over 10,000 old municipal landfills. What’s worse, 82 of surveyed landfill cells had leaks and 41 had a leak area of more than 1 square foot. The reality is that Americans generate a LOT of trash and this trash is capable generating a LOT of problems. Here are some stats to give you an idea of where we stand today:

• The average person creates 4.39 lbs of trash per day and up to 56 tons of trash per year.
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Gross to Gold

Leftovers, rotten banana peels, and weeds may sound like nothing but useless garbage. However, these unwanted waste products can be composted to create rich soil for growing plants and vegetables, while reducing the amount of trash you send to the landfill.Compost is created when aerobic microbes such as fungi and bacteria digest and breakdown the wastes that are thrown in a pile. Some people express concern that a compost pile full of old food and waste will create an undesirable smell. This is easily avoided by ensuring there are air spaces in your compost so only aerobic microbes do the work and not anaerobic microbes, which produce the horrible stench of rotting trash. Aerobic microbes also decompose waste faster, another reason to allow plenty of air into your compost. A successful compost pile must contain the right amount of moisture. If it becomes too wet or too dry, the composting process can be slowed significantly. It is very important to combine a good mixture of materials to your compost. Items such as fruit and vegetables and fresh grass are classifies as “green” materials. Other wastes such as sawdust and dry leaves are referred to as “brown” materials. Because green compost items contain more moisture than brown materials, a good balance of these two types helps to create a healthy amount of moisture. It usually only takes a month or two for your pile of waste to be turned into rich, healthy compost. When you can no longer see any of the original items from the pile, you have usable compost. Read the rest…