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How you can be environmentally |
Carpooling, recycling, using green cleaners, even getting rid of pesky junk mail can all help reduce the amount of pollution in our environment. Here are tips and links to help you become more environmentally friendly.
Links I Simple Steps I Green Cleaning Recipes I Junk Mail
Recycle it! >Earth911.com's comprehensive list of everything one can recycle!
Preventing Pollution at Your Home > EPA's fun site for finding common pollutants around a home. Has informative links and downloads.
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Things You Can Do to Prevent Air Pollution >A
list of everday actions that can cause air pollution.
Breathing Easier, a Citizen's Guide to Clean Air
Transportation and Pollution >Getting from here to there isn't always as simple as it seems. Many of our transportation activities harm our environment.
Tips on Water Conservation >Low-flow shower heads and watering lawns at the right time of day are just a couple of ways you can help conserve water.
Protect Your Watersheds >An interactive site with pictures, articles, and videos on watershed protection.
Preventing Water Pollution >Learn more about storm water pollution, beach pollution, and water conservation.
Gardening-Green >An entire website dedicated to environmentally friendly gardening!
Green Shopping >Shop with the environment in mind.
EnviroSense >EPA's common sense solutions to environmental problems.
Recycled Product's Guide >Search this online guide to specific brands and products courtesy of Pennsylvania's DEP.
Householders' Options to Protect the Environment >Hope encourages the use of the 4R's around the home: Re-use, Reduce, Recycle, Reclaim
Eco-friendly Seafood >By choosing the right kind of fish and seafood, you can help protect our ocean's and their inhabitants. Links to a pocket-sized shopping guide.
Free Donations.com >Rather than throw away items you no longer need, why not donate them? Recycling products via donation cuts back on landfill use and helps out people in need.
Click 2 Care >Corporate sponsors make donations to environmentally friendly causes every time you click on the image.
Simple Steps Toward Becoming More Environmentally
Friendly:
• Buy products in bulk or larger containers rather than multiple
small containers.
• Use a sponge rather than disposable towels.
• Buy concentrates.
• Buy fresh produce without packaging.
• Avoid double packaging.
• Avoid single-use products such as disposable razors, diapers and
lighters.
• Repair, rather than replace, broken items.
• Donate unwanted materials to charity.
Storage
and Disposal of Household Cleaners:
When using dangerous cleaners…
• Buy and use the amount needed for the task.
• Store cleaning products in their original container with the label
intact.
• Do not pour cleaners (other than drain openers) down the drain.
• Do not pour leftover cleaners in the trash.
• Call you local recycling coordinator for instructions on the proper
disposal of your household hazardous waste.
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Oven Cleaners
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Wipe oven while it is still warm; use baking soda/water paste and steel wool to scrub. |
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Toilet Cleaners
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Use a toilet brush and 1/2 cup baking soda or borax or soak with white vinegar. |
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Disinfectants:
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Mix 1/2 cup borax with one gallon of hot water or use undiluted white vinegar. |
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Drain Cleaners
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Use a plunger; flush drains weekly with hot water and 1/2 cup baking soda and 1/2 cup white vinegar. |
Junk
Mail:
Save a tree and clean up your
mailbox. You can remove your name from national mailing lists by writing
to the Mail Preference Service. After three months, your unwanted mail
should decrease by 75 percent! You may register with the name removal
file by mailing your name(s) and home address and signature in a letter
or on a postcard to:
Mail Preference Service
Direct Marketing Association
P.O. Box 643
Carmel, NY 10512
(212) 768-7277, extension 1888 (for information only)