Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Green Your Planet


As a Healthy Green Living Expert, I am often asked, "What can I do to help green the planet?". My answer is to make simple small steps every day that add up to one big impact.

The easiest way to get started is to: JUST RECYCLE. If everyone JUST recycled and used recycled products, we'd be way ahead of the curve. Once recycling becomes a part of your daily "routine", then add in REDUCE and REUSE. Again, simple small steps!!

In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times his or her adult weight in garbage. This means that each adult will leave a legacy of 90,000 lbs. of trash for his or her children. Recycling all of your home’s waste newsprint, cardboard, glass, and metal can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 850 pounds a year. Americans generate on average 4.4 pounds of waste per day per person. In this decade, it is projected that Americans will throw away over 1 million tons of aluminum cans and foil, more than 11 million tons of glass bottles and jars, over 4 and a half million tons of office paper and nearly 10 million tons of newspaper. Almost all of this material could be recycled. Almost 1/3 of the waste generated in America is packaging.

Tip for Today: Just RECYCLE!

Why use a valuable material or product once, and then place it in your trash to be buried in a landfill? Instead, divert that material for recycling, and capture the energy and resources already used to make that product. Since recycled materials have been refined and processed once, manufacturing the second time around is much cleaner and less energy-intensive than the first. By using recycled materials instead of trees, metal ores, minerals, oil, and other raw materials harvested from the earth, recycling-based manufacturing conserves the world’s scarce natural resources. This conservation reduces pressure to expand forests cutting and mining operations.

Then, when you're done, try hugging a tree! ;)

7 comments:

rObrak said...

I am also would like to start a change. I mean, I'll participate in any type of activity that aims in developing, and taking care of our environment because as an individual I like to see also the real beauty of our planet wherein its not contaminated, polluted. Recycling is a better action and I got also another idea of saving our planet. If we can only reduce the use of plastic then I think we can slowly make a change. Because plastic can cause a lot of impairments to us such as, it contains harmful toxic which can affect our health, it can produce pollution if its burned, can cause floods when its not wasted properly. We know that there is an alternative for this containers, the stainless steel containers. Like the one from Happy Tiffin (http://www.happytiffin.com) its steel tiffin boxes are very earth-friendly, portable (can bring anywhere easily), dishwasher safe, stylish, and durable. But its not that expensive. So, I hope we make use of this idea.

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