Hello Again,
In this post here are some helpful tips to recycle.
Grap a bunch of friends and do this:
-Plant a Garden. Trees and plants help decrease CO2 in the environment, and they're pretty! Remind people the beauty of a green planet by rallying them into planting a community garden. For added energy efficiency and fun, plant veggies and flowers. And remember: Fresh food always tastes better!
-Flex those vocal cords! Go to your local city hall and demand that they print city documents on recycled paper. Write letters, make calls, recruit your friends and their friends and friends of their friends.
-Sell or swap items made of recycled goods. Designate a day when you'll all get together to make some stuff, and then have a recycled craft fair. You'd be surprised how much you can make-like bird feeders or flower holders fashioned out of plastic bottles. The sky's the limit!
Things you can do with your family:
-Get your famz in the recycling mix. Make it easy for your family to seperate garbage by setting up the correct bins for paper, plastic, and metal. A lot of people don't recycle because it's not convenient-make it convenient!
-School 'Em. On the importance of conserving energy and water. Show them the facts(my last post) and how small steps can make a difference-like turning down the thermastat a few degrees, taking shorter showers, shutting the water off when they brush their teeth. Every small gesture matters! Then post cute reminders around the house-like post it notes (made of recycled paper, thank you) on the bathroom mirror and refridgerator door.
-Have a family craft night! Using recycled materials. Teach 'em the million and one cool things you can make with old cardboard milk cartons!
-Have a green dinner! Opt for organic, free range chicken or organic pasta, and veggies from your local farmer's market. And if that doesn't sound appetizing, try organic mac and cheese. Yes, it does exist! Be sure to look for organic labels and try to include as many fresh, local products as possible.
At school or church:
-Start a club! Does your school have a club to combat global warming? If not, start one. Students can push the administration to make the school greener or more energy efficient. You can even get people together from you church to see how it can cut down its carbon footprint. Then approach your priest with your ideas.
-Think and do! Where do you spend your time? Go there and help come up with ways to recycle. Walk through your place of worship after a function and see all the waste that's produced. Get your youth group to collect the water and soda bottles, then recycle them. Not only will you be doing a good deed, but you'll also be making people aware of the importance of recycling.
-Post it up! Ask your church and/or school administration if you and your friends can use some bulliten board space to put up a display about going green. Include facts, ways to make a difference, and info on local recycling times and locations. Show 'em that every little bit counts!
See there are many ways you can help use some or all of these tips to help save the planet. Remember every little thing you do to help counts. Even just recycling one item can help. Post comments on more tips to help recycle! My next post will be great gift ideas for your man to get you so tell him to look at this blog!
-Alley
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Recycling
Hey All,
Recycling is a really important thing, and not recycling is one of the reasons causing global warming! Here are some facts about recycling:
-The average American uses 650 pounds of paper each year. 100 MILLION TONS of wood can be saved each year if all that paper was actually recycled.
-About 80% of what Americans throw away each year is not recycable, yet our recycling rate is only 28%.
-Americans use 2.5 MILLION plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away...
-Everymonth Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper(think: Empire State Building). All these jars are recycable!
-Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures a year! Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? It's twice the size of Texas (my home state) and is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. Its also 80 percent plastic, and weighs in 3.5 million tons.
-Recycling one ton (about 2,000 pounds) of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrells of oil(enough to run the average car for 1,260 mile), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for six months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of pollution.
-The 17 trees saved by recycling a ton of paper can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year.
-If all our newspapers were recycled, we could save about 250 millions trees each year! If every American recycled just one-tenth(that's one out of ten)of their newspapers, we could save about 25 MILLION trees a year.
-More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of aluminum foil. Believe it not, ALL that foil is recycable, but not that many people realize it so most it goes in the trash!
-Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline. In spite of this, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commericial fleet of airplanes every three months!
-A typical family consumes 182 gallons of pop(aka soda), 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year! Thats a lot of containers-make sure they're recycled!
I bet most of you didn't know this. I didn't know it either! We need to do something. My next post will be ways to help recycle. So check in tommorow! I give a BIG thanks to dosomething.org for these facts. This is where I'm getting all my information. So check that website out one day and even become a member. It's one of the greatest website ever! Leave comments!
-Alley
Recycling is a really important thing, and not recycling is one of the reasons causing global warming! Here are some facts about recycling:
-The average American uses 650 pounds of paper each year. 100 MILLION TONS of wood can be saved each year if all that paper was actually recycled.
-About 80% of what Americans throw away each year is not recycable, yet our recycling rate is only 28%.
-Americans use 2.5 MILLION plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away...
-Everymonth Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper(think: Empire State Building). All these jars are recycable!
-Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures a year! Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? It's twice the size of Texas (my home state) and is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. Its also 80 percent plastic, and weighs in 3.5 million tons.
-Recycling one ton (about 2,000 pounds) of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrells of oil(enough to run the average car for 1,260 mile), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for six months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of pollution.
-The 17 trees saved by recycling a ton of paper can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year.
-If all our newspapers were recycled, we could save about 250 millions trees each year! If every American recycled just one-tenth(that's one out of ten)of their newspapers, we could save about 25 MILLION trees a year.
-More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of aluminum foil. Believe it not, ALL that foil is recycable, but not that many people realize it so most it goes in the trash!
-Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline. In spite of this, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commericial fleet of airplanes every three months!
-A typical family consumes 182 gallons of pop(aka soda), 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year! Thats a lot of containers-make sure they're recycled!
I bet most of you didn't know this. I didn't know it either! We need to do something. My next post will be ways to help recycle. So check in tommorow! I give a BIG thanks to dosomething.org for these facts. This is where I'm getting all my information. So check that website out one day and even become a member. It's one of the greatest website ever! Leave comments!
-Alley
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