tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86525630647989294412024-03-05T10:53:06.517+00:00The Green PepsMaking The World Greener, One Post At A Time!Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652563064798929441.post-27282069596907386792012-01-30T11:47:00.000+00:002012-01-30T11:47:00.055+00:00Weird Stuff You Can Recycle<span style="font-size: small;">Everyone know thats we need to recycle & reuse more and throw out less, so we know about plastic, glass, paper etc but I bet these weird stuff are things you didn't think you could recycle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Footwear ~ Just because your traniers are competely wrecked it doesn't neccasily mean that you have to throw them out. The sports company "Nike" have set up a program called "Reuse A Shoe" this is where people donate their old footwear to nike and then nike take it to their Belgian recycling facility were it is grinded up into what they call "Nike Grind" and is used to make things like gym flooring, running tracks and is also made into other useful sports stuff. Here's a link to <a href="http://nikereuseashoe.co.uk/">Nike's recycling program</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Towels ~ Clean used towels can be reused by donating them to local animal shelters as they will use them as bedding for the animals or use them to dry them after a bath. For people in the UK they could donate to <a href="http://www.rspca.org.uk/home">rspca</a> (UK) and for the americans: <a href="http://www.aspca.org/">rspca</a> (US).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sex Toys ~ We can recycle things like paper, plastic and alimution so why couldn't we recycle sex toys? It works in a similar way of Nike's program except it is sex toys that are collected, sorted and then grinded up then mixed with a binding meterial and then made into new toys. Other toys like vibators are taken apart so anything that is salvagable is recycled! Here's the link to <a href="http://www.sextoyrecycling.com/recyclingtoys.html">recycling sex toys</a>.</span>Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652563064798929441.post-68684288601486195002012-01-25T19:16:00.002+00:002012-01-25T19:17:41.280+00:00Is It Possible To Have Zero Waste?<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In the world we are living in land is becoming scarcer which means that we are running out of space to throw away our rubbish. This means we will have to eventually live in a zero waste society and this will most likely be caused by making sure we use things that can be recycled.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In our household the main thing we throw out is food packaging as our local council do not have the facilities to recycle certain plastic that is used to make food packaging. We also have a compost bin at the back of the garden which means that there is not any food based waste. As a household we produce about 1 plastic bag of rubbish once every 4 to 5 days.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">If you are interested in lowering the amount of rubbish you produce then try to make a note of what you throw out even if it is just a mental note and try thinking to yourself can this be recycled, reused or composted, if the answer is yes to any of those three responses then it does not belong in the rubbish bin.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Growing your own fruit and/or vegetables will not only increase the quality of the food you eat, as well as reducing the distance your food travels to you however it does means that you will also decrease the amount of rubbish you produce!</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In order to become a zero waste society food companies need to be more eco-friendly and conscious, and the government need to start setting up more recycling facilities that can recycle all the food packaging plastic. This is where we as a society must step in and place pressure onto these companies and the government for a greener and safer tomorrow.</span></span></div>Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652563064798929441.post-73156834847172605672012-01-19T18:55:00.003+00:002012-01-19T18:56:37.135+00:00How To Be Green With Your Cuppa!<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This aspect of a greener life is not so well known hence why there is a whole post devoted to it. As we will all know some of the most electrical consuming objects can be found in the kitchen and one of those devices is the kettle, so the next you make a cuppa just follow the information for a greener life.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The tip is simple; only boil the water you need! To do this to the millilitre just pour the water into the cup/ mug then empty the cup/mug into the kettle and boil. Not only will you save electricity (and some pennies) but the time to boil the water will be significantly reduced.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So that was the easy bit but what about the hard part? Well that’s doing it again and again until it becomes part of your tea/coffee routine because we all know that old habits die hard.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Hope this helps you live out a more eco-friendly life!</span></span></div>Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652563064798929441.post-31955981622421392682012-01-15T07:03:00.004+00:002012-01-15T07:04:24.263+00:00The Eco-Friendly Dentist<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">A few days ago I found a YouTube video that was posted on reddit about the eco-friendly dentist and I felt that I had to share it with you guys. As you can see from the clip (link is below) he is very enthusiastic about being green. </span></div><a name='more'></a><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiVkWnyGLk4&context=C3b0599dADOEgsToPDskJt8SdcJMHI_F3zugw8O0JE">YouTube Video Of The Greeniest Dentist.</a> I just wish everyone, regardless if they own a business or not, would take the environment and how we all affect it as a serious issue rather than just dismissing it. I think it is great that the guy offers toothbrushes (through his practice) that are made from plastic yogurt pots and that he collects old toothbrushes to get recycled!</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">He also mentioned about using less paper by turning all the dental records from paper into a digital form (computer based). Imagine the amount of trees that could be saved if just a faction of companies switched from paper to digital.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Hope you enjoyed the video and as usual feel free to comment.</span></div>Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652563064798929441.post-58473467067089146182012-01-14T18:14:00.004+00:002012-01-14T18:15:42.408+00:00What Motivates People To Recycle?<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Most people know that recycling is important in order to make less of an impact upon the environment however there are a lot of people that ignore this and fail to recycle the things that can be recycled!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><a name='more'></a><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Which has made me think about why people recycle stuff and what motivates them to do so? In some parts of the US they get paid to recycle but here in the UK it is to and is rather expected of us, could this have made a stigma about throwing away recyclables?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">If this is the case then maybe paying people to recycle is doing more harm than good? A report by the “EPA” (Environment Protection Agency) done in 2009 for America reported that 34.5% of metals were recycled which means a massive 65.5% of metals that could be reused are just sitting in a land fill! If you wish to see how your state compares then visit: <a href="http://www.epa.gov/epahome/whereyoulive.htm">http://www.epa.gov/epahome/whereyoulive.htm</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">When I ask myself why I recycle the main reason that I can think of is that it is expected of me by the society and culture that I live in. In secondary school for example (for people outside UK it is age group of about 12 – 17) there were big blue recycling bin for cans and bottles and even in the classrooms themselves there were three different recycling boxes (paper, cans and bottles).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Feel free to comment on why you think you and people around you recycle/don’t recycle.</span></div>Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652563064798929441.post-76533417850201230562012-01-01T19:06:00.001+00:002012-01-01T19:07:15.204+00:00Light Bulb Snowman<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In my last post about reusing I mentioned by using paper mache and a used light bulb to make cute little snowman, I know it is a tad late since Christmas has just pasted but there is always next year, well here’s a picture of one I made:</span></span></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It has 3 layers of newspaper, then glued card to make the scarf. It then has 2 layers of white paper. For the scarf I used paper from a wine voucher from a package from amazon and the eyes were cut from the black plastic you get from a pack of chocolate fingers.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">You don’t need to do the same colour scheme or use the same stuff if you don’t want to and feel to post a picture of your own light bulb snowman. I hope you guys enjoy this.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The link to the site on how actually to make it: <a href="http://familycrafts.about.com/od/snowpeople/ss/lbsnowman.htm">Light Bulb Snowman</a></span></span></div>Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652563064798929441.post-54334088350472339262012-01-01T14:45:00.002+00:002012-01-01T14:47:43.823+00:00Reusing Ideas<span style="font-size: small;">Recently I published a post on the three R's (reduce, reuse and recycle) so I decided to make a post about reusing ideas. Reusing something is important in helping our environment as it means new resources do not need to be harvested to make that item.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bulbs ~ Fancy doing some paper mache? Using a bulb, newspaper, glue and some imagination you can make a nice pretty snowman. For instructions try <a href="http://familycrafts.about.com/od/snowpeople/ss/lbsnowman.htm">this site</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bags ~ Okay this one is very simple just use reusable bags when doing the next food shop and only use plastic bags if you need them for something like bin liners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Toilet Roll ~ You can make a nice and cheap environmentally friendly bird feeder by putting a hole through the roll near the top (with something like a hole puncher). Then cover it with peanut butter and then sprinkle the bird seeds on the peanut butter. Using the hole you made earlier tie string through it and hang it outside. You now have a bird feeder!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">If you have any ideas on reusing then please feel free comment.</span>Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652563064798929441.post-67299145048299374632011-12-22T12:27:00.005+00:002012-01-19T17:55:36.199+00:00It's The Small Things...<span style="font-size: small;">It is the small th<span style="font-family: inherit;">ings that can make a difference to helping our environment recover from the excessive damage we have </span>caused to this beautiful planet of ours. If we can't change our behaviour in small ways how will we learn to adapt to the big changes that we have no control over (like running out of oil for example).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">~ Lights ~ Everyone uses them nowadays but we need to learn to turn them off, this is a simple thing to do yet we fail to switch them off when we leave the room! Make sure every bulb in the house is an energy saving bulb, they are only about 11 watts which is better than a 60 watt bulb (over 500% better).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">~ TV ~ We all know that we shouldn't leave the tv on stand by but we still persist to allow the tv to drain electricity (and we all that the price of electricity is only going up). For example the average 26 inch led tv uses 50 watts per hours when on and 0.3 watts an hour when off but plugged in, however it uses a massive 18 watts an hour. Using that stats if someone put their 26 inch tv on stand by for 20 hours a day then they are using up 360 watts (20 times 18) which is going to waste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">~ Heating ~ It can be a real pain in the butt waking up to a cold house so naturally you would be the heating on but does it need to stay on while your out of the house? If (like me) you don't want to come home to a cold house then set the heating to come on an hour before you arrive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">~ Trash ~ If an item can be recycled or even better if it can be reused then don't throw it out. Why not take it a step better, why not try to reduce the amount of rubbish your household makes. We used to empty our litter bin every night after supper but now we only need to empty every 3 days (if that).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I hope that you find this useful (or at the very least some sort of motivation to life out a greener and healthier lifestyle).</span>Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652563064798929441.post-69531538012927660272011-12-19T18:14:00.004+00:002011-12-22T12:37:38.281+00:00The Three R's<span style="font-size: small;">Sorry about the wait peps, as you can tell from the title this post is about "Reduce, Reuse & Recycle". This phase came around about 30 years ago when the "epa" (The Environmental Protection Agency) first started to look into harmful waste and what to do with it. The three R's are in order of effectiveness, reducing has more impact than reusing and reusing has more of an impact than recycling.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: small;">Reduce ~ Reducing starts at the supermarket by buying only what you need and changing the company you buy from can have a big impact on helping the environment. Now a days dvds come in shrink wraps and at supermarkets we get plastic bags instead of brown paper bags. Buy products that can be used again like</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">buying bottles instead of cans and if you don't already buy rechargeable batteries, as these things create less waste and are not limited to just one life. More is less, where possible buy in bulk rather than buying small things all the time as this will help to reduce your waste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Reuse ~ Many items that get thrown out have the potential to be used again before being thrown out/recycled. Before throwing something out ask yourself if you could use that item again. Envelopes can be reused be putting a sticker over the address or they can be used as scrap paper (to doddle, jot notes down etc) before being recycled. Jar and pots once cleaned are very useful for storing stuff whether it is the leftover baked beans or for all the pens and pencils you have lying about the house. Packaging could be donated to schools and nurseries to be used for art projects this could include things like egg cartons or foil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Recycling ~ Although it is argued that recycling is the least effective out of the three R's it still plays a very important role making our life's greener as this will help conserve the remaining virgin resources we have left. Glass is ideal for recycling as it can be recycled indefinitely without losing it's purity. Other things like paper, plastic and metal can and should be recycled, although they can not be recycled forever it is still more environmentally friendly to recycle than to create them afresh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hope this helped the world become a greener place, see ya next time folks.</span>Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652563064798929441.post-42214365576765593792011-09-26T15:01:00.004+01:002011-12-22T12:40:36.305+00:00Shame On You McDonalds!<span style="font-size: small;">As a part-time crew member at a McDonald's restaurant in Britain for just over a year I have been noticing the insane amount of plastic that our store goes through (and we are a very small store, about 60 staff) but that is not what gets to me, it is the fact that it is just chucked into the bins and not recycled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">On a busy day (usually weekends) we could go through 6 (2.2 litre, semi-skimmed) milk bottles at least just for the hot drinks machine, this plastic gets binned. Other plastics include: bottled water, Orange Juice, Fruit Shoot and bottled milk. Just for staff breaks alone we would go through about 20 bottles a day, all of which gets binned. As you can see lots of plastic used by staff gets chucked and sent to a dump with the other rubbish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">As for customers it would be at least 70 to 100 bottles a day. All that is needed is a few more bins but for plastic instead of rubbish and someone to collect it when they collect the rubbish and the cardboard (currently the only thing McDonald's actually recycles).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Keep in mind that this is a small store, imange the amount of plastic a big store in a highstreet produces!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So I asked our store manager (the person who pretty much runs the McDonald's store) and they said that it would simply cost McDonald's money for things like people to sort it, people to pick it up and fuel for it to be driven to a recycling plant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">However it is not all gloom and doom, McDonald's does recycle cardboard and does reuse oil from our frie and chicken vats into some of the fuel for our delievery trucks.</span>Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652563064798929441.post-73603907551081517132011-09-20T13:22:00.005+01:002012-01-18T17:28:33.271+00:00Carbon Footprint, What Is It?<div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">A carbon footprint is basically how much Co2 (carbon) you pollutate this plant with, the lower it is the better for both your walletand our environment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The majority of people know about what a carbon footprint is but fail to know how big theirs is. Your carbon footprint takes many things into account things like how often you go to the doctors, to what you eat and how much you travel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The following is a breakdown of my footprint:</span></div><a name='more'></a><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Services (healthcare, education, legal stuff, construction etc.) = 3.3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Food = 1.6</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Stuff (buying things: clothes, games, dvds etc.) = 1.1</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Home Electricity = 4.9</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Public Transport = 0.4</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Water & Sewage = 0.3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">This comes to a total of 11.6 tonnes of Co2 a year. Some of the things on the list are hard to change for example the services and water & sewage would be seen as necessary. Where as food could be lowered to 0.8 if I cut all red meat, poultry and dairy from my diet (basically a vegan diet but foods like fish and honey are allowed).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Things I could live without are things like public transport, meat and dairy and I suppose I don’t really need as much games and dvds.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The averages are:</span></div><ul style="font-family: inherit;"><li><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">US = 30 tonnes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">UK = 15.4 tonnes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">China = 4.5 tonnes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Bangladesh = 1 tonnes</span></li>
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Since I live in the UK I inject 3.8 less tonnes of Co2 than the average person living in the United Kingdom. However this simply because I don’t fly which is the single most destructive thing that you can do to the environment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Shocking isn’t it, the average person in America uses 30 tonnes of Co2 a year, no wonder global warming is getting worse and whole species of animals are just getting wiped out. If we do not do something about our own carbon footprint that we will extinct ourselves from this beautiful plant via greed and selfishness. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Carbon footprint and breakdown source: <a href="http://my.1010uk.org/">http://my.1010uk.org/</a></span></div>Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8652563064798929441.post-61476843738288195862011-09-19T20:14:00.010+01:002012-01-18T17:25:27.552+00:00How To Be More Green!<span style="font-size: small;">Whether you are a Eco warrior or you just want to be more green then you may find these tips helpful in your bid to be more green, lower your carbon footprint and to be less harmful to the environment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> ~ Don't waste food. In order for the food to get on the shelves in the supermarket, it has to be grown, processed, flown and then driven to your local supermarket, all of which would use chemicals to fertilise (if it is a plant based food) and then a load (and I mean loads) of oil just to get to the supermarket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> ~ Buy meat from your local butchers and fruit and veg from your local grocery. The reason for this is that food from local butchers and grocerys will have their stock grown locally which means it takes less oil in travelling than if it was grown abroad and it will be more fresh and better tasting. If you can, try to increase fruit and veg that are in season and reduce the ones that are not in season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> ~ Turn off any unused eletrictric objects. This may seem like common sense but it is easy to fall asleep to the tv or forget to turn your music off when you take your earplugs out. This will not only help the environment but could save you money as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> ~ Cut at least half a mile distance when driving. Imiange how much oil could be saved if everyone cut half a mile of driving where appiorate every day, whether it is just going to work, shopping or going out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> ~ Recycle everything. Try to recycle everything and anything that can be recycled then instead of driving to the nearest recycling despoit banks simplily walk there (unless they are a long way away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I hope that this helped you be greener and hopefully your help can help save us from ourselves.</span>Bound_To_Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16706412135239731002noreply@blogger.com0