People are Getting It!

So nice to see in our community that people do care!

I loved watching my oldest separate all the paper &

cardboard that could be recycled from Christmas gifts .

 I didn't even have to tell her or remind her!

Wrapping and packaging from each relative's house

we visited was repacked out and stowed in the car.

Then we made the trip out to the recycling center

and saw a container full of more wrapping paper!

Thanks community for remembering to be good recyclers!

A Follow up to the Kleenex "Rant"...

...with a great post from "It's Starts With Me" blogger Danielle! Click below to read all about buying recycled vs. non-recycled paper products.

It Starts With Me: 90 Years: "That's how long it takes to grow a box of Kleenex Brand tissues. Back in 2005, my father in-law started talking to me about buying recycled..."

Disposable Bathroom Hand Towels??? What??

The latest in eco-friendly designs - NOT!

Complete with a gimicky song for the kids!

The Kleenex® Hand Towels Drying Song

My hands are gonna be clean

When I wash and I dry with mommy and sing

This song that's exactly two clean hands long

Warm water and soap and bubbles that shine

A Kleenex® Hand Towel that's mine all mine

And a song that's exactly two clean hands long

No yucky old towel's gonna ruin my day

I dry my hands the Kleenex® towel way

So if you're a fan of clean hands too

Roll up your sleeves and I'll sing with you.

How DIRTY are we in our OWN private bathrooms

that we need a new paper towel to dry off

with EVERY time we wash our hands?

Join me in boycotting Kleenex (and Kimberly-Clark)!

And let them know what you think of

their new product by leaving a comment here:

http://www.kleenex.com/NA/ContactUs.aspx

Mama Earth Thanks You!

Eco Tip of the Week - Ban The Paper Goods!

So you've nixed the plastics, now it's time to phase out the paper goods, too!  As your supply starts getting low, it's time to start looking for cloth/fabric replacements.  As for paper plate substitutes? Use your dishes or grandma's china!

Or try some of the following ideas:

**Look for sales after holidays on cloth napkins and hand towels.

**Shop secondhand stores.

**Peruse local garage sales.

**Check with mom (or dad), it's amazing what they find in their linen drawer!

**Make your own napkins out of fabric remnants.

**Make your own towels out of old t-shirts & thermal shirts.

The forests will thank you!

Saving the World One Tree at a Time

The non-recycler in our house says to me whenever I dig paper out of the garbage,"there you go, saving the world one tree at a time." And I always answer with, "if we added up all the people saving the world one tree at a time, imagine how many trees we would save!"

So it pleases me to watch the girls not even think twice about putting their paper scraps, empty cracker boxes, and miscellaneous other papers straight into the paper recycle bin.  It is just second nature to them to do so!

Before we moved, we lived in a community that "got" recycling and heavily promoted it.  They recycled plastics 1-7, glass, cans, aluminum, all papers, cardboards, paperboard and all curbside.  The community we live in is trying to get there.  But for now only glass, metals, plastics 1&2, and newpaper is curbside.  I can sneak in my 3-7 plastics to work, and put them in the recycle bin there.  But my papers I have to take to the drop-off facility at the other end of our town.  This has become quite the outing for the girls. They love tossing the papers and boxes and cardboard into the containers and seeing who can through the farthest!

Just think!

"You use paper and paperboard products every day, from newspapers to food packaging to office paper. In fact, paper and paperboard products make up the largest portion of the municipal solid waste stream in the United States and as a result,

offer the greatest opportunity to recycle. "

So in the spirit of proving that ONE person CAN make a difference, see the below pictures. 
One person at a time, filled these containers with waste paper.

And just think - each container is a container load of waste being kept out of a landfill.

Happy Recycling!