what do you reuse ,recycle and reduce to help mother earth?

do you compost? recycle?

Carpool, compost, recycle and reuse (plastic baggies for sure ;) )

that started me thinking about this


OMG did I copycat????:banghead:

I was going to say that... Now I need to think of new snark...

:spank: :rofl:



You too Pierre!

use a clothesline? use swirly light bulbs? can or freeze produce?

Yoo Hoo!

so we have been using them. I ony recycle cans. My Grandparents recycle EVERYTHING!! We also started a Garden yesterday..five strains of tomatos..peas..brussel sprouts..and rhubarb.

We also planted a LONG row of mammoth sunflower plants. Those are my favorite to raise because the birds and squirrels go apeshit over them.

there is a whole field of them not far from here and in summer it is one of my favorite places to go and "look" at stuff


I wish I could have a garden but my property has to much shade and the ground stays to wet but I always help my daughter in law and my son with theirs

We freeze and can it in the fall .The farmers market close by is a great resource too.

MMMM!!! MMM!!!

We had one little squirrel that would run off with the WHOLE sunflower in his mouth. He would stumble, but he wasn't letting it go for anything. He did it to every single one of our sunflowers.

Fuzzy little shit. :rofl:

decent hot pile. I do all the other stuff, though, including no harsh cleaning chemicals in the bathrooms, kitchen and laundry

I have done so everywhere I've lived but now. Concrete balconies don't help with the aeration so much (plus, landlords don't like the added weight to the balconies...) ;)

Houston has lots of land (we're a "sprawl" city) and plenty of older parts of town with large lots and tiny houses, so room for those gardens! :D

I feel guilty throwing away coffee grinds , egg shells and other goodies

as the acidity can change the ph of your soil. Gnerally, they are safe for compost heaps, just spread it out more. This is a good link but doesn't say homw much cooffee grounds is too much, if there is such a thing:

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/QR/QR3.html


That's a great site, including their infomration about the idea that weeds aren't to be eradicated but observed as soil-health indicators :)

It IS a great site:-)

according to her, her Dad and I suck at it.
She's mostly right.
I. am. ashamed. (but learning!)

is an education all by itself! My grandson dogged me until using a seatbelt became a habit.


kids are cool little goobers!:hi:

www.greengrrlsecoadventure.com

:fistbump:

looks really interesting Thanks!!:loveya:

drive a car with good mileage (Ford Focus); buy clothing and other items from resale shops or rummage sales; have reuseable water bottles; reuseable grocery bags; am veg*n; buy locally produced seasonal food whenever possible; use cfls; recycle batteries; use a clothesline. I think that's it.

My favorite place to shop is Goodwill and Salvation Army stores.

and you take care of critters! THAT is a biggie in my world!:hug:

no reason to flush every single time.

This is at home only. People would freak out if I do it at work. I also flush everytime when I have company.

before I have company to see if it is too "mellow" in there LOL

but I already warned her that overnight I won't flush the yellow. Her room is next to the bathroom, no need to wake her with the flushing.

were the "half-flush" options on the toilets. I used those whenever I didn't have solid wastes. You can get such devices now for regular toilets, too. I think the handle lifts up for a half flush, and down for a full :)

My compost is hovering around 150 degrees (F) right now. I use no gas powered devices in my yard; brooms, rakes, push mower, and lawn edger are all hand powered. My one token piece of powered machine is a cheesy electric power mower that I use exclusively to grind up all the yard clippings to facilitate faster (and hotter) composting. I inherited a gas powered mulcher doesn't work so I'm planning to convert it to electric before the cheesy electric mover dies. I average about 96 gallons of wonderful dark rich sifted compost a year that goes right back into the vegetable garden or broadcast onto my luscious front lawn.

gas powered mower , but I am an old widow woman who lives alone and I can not push a mower :hi:

Compost or feed chickens/dogs/wildlife ALL organic matter.
Burn paper.
Recycle Aluminum cans (all that is available around here - goes to nearby town firefighters for 4th of July fireworks).
Plastics an other trash not reused get hauled to county transfer station ~ once a month or less.
Clothes come from thrift shop for the most part, same with lots of kitchen ware/dishes/glasses.
Don't buy or eat crap from the middle of the store so MUCH less trash to begin with.
We pump our own water so are VERY conscious of usage.
Deadwood collected off the property for majority of winter heat.
Fans for cooling. (had a Sears pool but it is dead now - would love to replace but can't afford it right now)
Our main extravagance is the hot tub and with the old age and all the physical work it's closer to being a medical necessity.

Oh yeah - swirly lightbulbs and rechargeble batteries - and I have turned into my father, stomping around the house grousing and turning off lights.

My biggest bad is the gas guzzler vehicles - hate them, hate paying for fuel, hate the environmental cost, but stuck financially (and horrible roads) so always try to combine errands.

is shopping the "outside" isles of the supermarket . I try to not buy anything with more than five ingredients

I also use those reusable grocery bags for all of my shopping.
I stopped using plastic bottles a while ago.- I carry a Kleen Kanteen around with me all the time, like I'm about to venture into the desert or something.

I havent filled my curbie garbage can since I moved in, but I fill my recycle bin every week.

and the cashiers at Meijers are getting accustomed to the weird recycle lady :rofl:

I also use the produce bags over At least a third of my grocery list is produce!

I only do it occasionally because I don't want to hurt my wife's feelings. I hide them in the garbage so she won't likely see them.

:hide:

and just see traffic increasing...litter...selfish no turn signal using fuggs...

add up to big things

a really good and painless thing to do is to change lightbulbs . Saves money too!

Not really - I just thought that would raise some eyebrows. But they DO recycle those on the space station!

not think about it!

I have taken about 500 Kw off of the grid.
Thats 500Kw of electricity that no longer needs to be generated by coal,gas or nuclear power plants.

Plus,my house recycles and composts.
Also,the Land Trust behind my home recycles and reuses all kinds of materials.

along with my old tires and plastic bottles. Sure, they're tough to light, but once you pour a gallon or two of gasoline on them, they go up like magic.

Hi,
I must admit selfishly that I do most of these things out of my own frugality, but of course get enjoyment out of some, even riding the bus, I can relax, read, listen to music or other things, plus the bus drivers here are all cool.

I do garden a little
I use the pig tail light bulbs
Reusable grocery bags
Rechargeable batteries - talk about a money saver!
Sigg Water Bottle
I take the bus to and from work everyday
I too use the yellow is mellow method of the flush
The recycling situation here kind of blows, but I do recycle newspapers and magazines

Peace

Use almost all CFL bulbs. Nearly all our purchases come home in our reusable bags, so few plastic and paper bags come into the house.

We generate so little garbage, including recyclables, that we only take six cans to the dump drop off about every other month. We'd use less if I could get my husband to give up his fizzy drinks, but he's been diluting them with ice cubes and cutting back. His bottles are over half the volume of our trash. :(

And I just made a deal with a local CSA (community supported agriculture) organic gardener to trade horse manure for veggies!

corrugated card board, paper, glass, some plastic, building material (wood, concrete, etc), metal.

Hubster and I go shopping at the center. Goodies recycled: chairs, bookcases, table, sheepskin jacket, leather coat, TVs, cd players and lots of gardening and lawn care tools. Fix 'em up, clean 'em up and they're good for another 100K miles. Either use them ourselves or trade or give away.

Compost kitchen scraps and garden waste. Mulching blade on lawn mower so grass clipping and shredded leaves recycle back into lawn. Don't use pesticides and very little chemical fertilizers, mostly horse or cow manure.

Veggie and herb garden stuff mostly goes to friends who run a restaurant.

Outdoor clothes line, low wattage light bulbs, no AC. Keep house temp at 68F. Unplug most electronic equipment at night to keep the vampires at bay.

Hubster rides a scooter when weather allows (85mpg), Geo Metro otherwise. My car's gas bill is o/a $20 per month. All the wheels get annual physicals and routine checks on tire pressure.

Try to make the place critter friendly. Planted about 15 trees, wild flower patch (about a quarter of an acre), lots of flowering bushes. Grass is a waste of good dirt.

We keep bees, a win-win for everyone.

All of the above. And we use natural personal and cleaning products instead of pouring toxic chemicals into the environment.

I used to have a serious addiction to those damned bottled Starbucks coffee things. Now, I use them as water bottles.

I reuse a lot of things but I'm especially proud of my Starbucks bottle collection. :)

Our garbage company went to single-stream recycling and we now have this big blue barrel and can dump everything in there. In the past with the little basket where you had to separate things, it was more difficult. Now, everything gets dumped into the recycle barrel.

hehe.

I'm drinking coffee from an old peanut butter jar

My "camera case" is a plastic folgers container

I have 4 BIG trash bags of beer cans. (waiting for prices to come back up)

I drive a car that was headed to the crusher but needed a bit of work to get roadworthy

I don't shop at Sukmart mainly because they don't have paper bags

I compost. Mainly because it keeps the gnats down

Going to build a greenhouse soon.

I hate brand new clothes so I've been wearing the same stuff for years.. well, if I need something I'll go to a Goodwill or the like.

etc.

:hi:

I can't compost because I live in the city and have a small backyard. My family uses a Brita water pitcher to filter our water and we try to avoid foods with excess packaging i.e. frozen dinners, Lunchables. We do grow some of own food in a small garden and visit the local farmer's market. We also get some food in bulk at Costco. Baltimore city has curbside recycling every other week and we manage to fill our recycling bin. Trash is collected twice a week and my family of 4 averages one trash bag a week.

I know it sounds icky, but I use it to water my plants - the soap in the water helps kill bugs that eat the plants.

I also recycle plastic, cans, paper, etc -

And we have a really good recycling program at work.

I also reuse plastic bags, like the sandwich kind. Just wash them out really good and you can use them again. And we also reuse those plastic containers that we buy lunch meat in. You can wash them out too, even in the dishwasher, and then use them to bring a snack into work.

No compost, but we have thought about it. We just have to get up off our ass and do it! :)