REduce Your Trash

The less you bring into your home the less opportunity of collecting clutter. When you’re out shopping ask yourself 3 QUESTIONS: do you LOVE it, do you NEED it, and will you USE it... before purchasing.
Also, consider how the item is packaged... can you recycle the majority of it?
Don’t take plastic bags from every store you shop at. Bring your own!

REduce and then REthink Storage Options

Before you start purchasing organizing containers you need to REDUCE and possibly even REUSE your items. Once you reduce, take a quick inventory of the empty containers you already have before you run off to the store to buy new ones.

SAVE some GREEN. Use household items for storage... shoeboxes, wooden crates, berry baskets, and empty jars can store anything from memorabilia to old paperwork to office supplies to doggie treats.

Keep, Donate, Toss and RECYCLE

When you are conquering the clutter separate your items into keep, donate, toss and recycle. Your goal is to reduce your toss pile by increasing your donate and recycle piles. It is amazing that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Tap into your local resources to see what items can be reused or recycled. EARTH911.org is a great search engine to find your local recycling resource.

Terracycle makes products from waste packaged in waste

Ever wonder what to do with your Cliff Bar wrappers or your yogurt containers? Well TerraCycle knows what to do with it along with many other products that are "non-recyclable ". Sign up online and give to those in need... www.terracycle.net. It's a win win!

For a limited time, TerraCycle is offering a discount on their first product, All Purpose Worm Poop Plant Food, the world’s first product made from waste and packaged in waste, at the lowest price: ·
$3.50 each if you order 1-4 bottles (a 30% discount!)·
$2.50 each if you order 6 bottles or more (a 50% discount!)
All you have to do is go to a dedicated TerraCycle website, www.shoponlygreen.com and use the special code GROW.

Please consider the environment before printing this

The dream of a paperless office hasn't turned out quite the way we thought. If anything, technology has created more paperwork. Through technology, we are inundated with information and neat ideas that we want to hold on to. So, we print out a web page or email and put it in our pile, or file. Stop! Think before you print! Do you really need a hard copy of that information, or can it be easily found again online by bookmarking it, or saving into a folder on your computer? If you do have to print it, only print the pages you need. Often when you print an email, you'll get extra pages with one or two words or graphics on them. What a waste! Make sure you select the print mode in your email program, so you are not printing everything, or cut and paste the information you need into a word document and print just that.