Recycle Freak

Water Bottles

Buy a reusable bottle that fits your lifestyle (and your purse) and skip buying a new one at every lunchtime stop. Need a reason? Americans use 3.3 million plastic bottles every hour but recycle only one in five!!!

Aluminum!

American consumers and industry throw away enough aluminum to rebuild the entire U.S. commercial air fleet every 3 months.

This is just WOW! It’s not hard. Save cans. Take to a recycling center. Get money! I just got $20 bucks!!! :)

It’s True!!!

Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 6,953 gallons of water, 380 gallons of oil, 587 pounds of air pollution, 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space, and 4,077 hours of energy!

Remember… It’s AS important to by items made of recycled materials as it is to actually recycle. Closing the loop!

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Junk Mail

• Every year, 100 million trees are chopped down for junk mail sent to American homes.
• Paper makes up a third of all the waste that Americans send to the landfill.
• More than 9 large trees worth of paper are sent to each U.S. home, the response rate is less than 2%.
• Our local taxes are used to dispose of this junk mail that we didn’t even want in the first place.

Christmas Trees

It is that time of year again! We all love Christmas, but these stats on Christmas Trees and lights are amazing!

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Wine + Eco friendly! Sign me up!

Fetzer winery is committed to eco-friendly business practices. When I first saw their bottle claiming “The Earth friendly winery” I decided to take a closer look. Was I surprised! This company deserves a high five a gold star and your business!

• Since 1999, Fetzer has reduced water usage by 24% or 8 million gallons
  annually
• In cost-sharing collaborations with government agencies, Fetzer undertook conservation and restoration efforts of Dooley and McNab Creeks, two
  watersheds vital to the health of our winegrowing region.
• Fetzer utilizes a range of cover crops and promotes biodiversity in the
  vineyards and landscape.
• Fetzer wine bottles use lightweight glass, which reduces their carbon
  footprint by 14%. Annually, the new bottles reduces glass usage by 16%
  (more than 2,100 tons)

Saving energy

• By using biodiesel fuel in many of their trucks and tractors Fetzer have reduced carbon dioxide emissions by about four metric tons a year.
• Atop Fetzer’s bottling facility is one of the wine industry’s largest
  solar array, which is capable of generating 1.1MM kilowatt hours of
  clean energy

On top of all that, their wine is GOOD! Really good! So now, I am a believer and I will support their company because of this! 100% of energy used is from renewable resources such as solar, wind and geothermal. This is unreal! I hope this is a trend that businesses will adopt or be made to adopt in the near future! We have the resources! Why not use them?

Celestial Tea Bags

If you use these tea bags, you might have asked yourself, Why no string and tags?

This company is committed to doing what’s best for the environment! No strings, tags, staples or individual wrappers save more than 3.5 million pounds of waste from entering the landfill every year!!

I support companies who are doing great things for our environment! Are you?

Trash

A flotilla of debris the size of Texas, weighing 3.5 MILLION tons, has accumulated between Hawaii and California.

Remember, plastic doesn’t break down!

What are you doing to reduce the trash YOU make!?