Green Efforts

Reduce 

  • We’ve been turning the computer and laptop off every evening.
  • I pack a lunch nearly every day sometimes and eat lunch at work (instead of driving home and back at lunchtime)
  • Nearly All the lightbulbs in our house are the modernized fluorescent bulbs (they use ~75% less energy)
  • I bicycle to work as much as possible (not quite every day right now — a couple times a week)

Reuse 

  • Old plastic and glass jars and bottles are being re-used as glasses and storage containers.
  • All plastic bags from various supermarkets are saved and re-used for other things

Recycle 

  • Glass bottle, tin/steel/bi-metal cans, plastics #1, 2, and 7 are all recycled through the city’s recycling service
  • Kitchen scraps, junkmail, etc. are all composted in the backyard / vermi-composted
  • Newspaper is shredded and used for composting and mulching

2 Responses to “Green Efforts”

John V wrote a comment on September 3, 2007

You know you recycle bath water and toilet paper too! Scumlife :)

Honeybee*Hill » Blog Archive » Have less stuff sent a pingback on December 13, 2007

[...] definitely doing our part to steer the consumer-driven economy, we do make certain green efforts (Aaron documents them in his blog). I really want to take this a step farther though, so here I am going to promise to use the craft [...]

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