Quad: You don't see me!
Actually, I'm working my way to be environmental, or as you may call, 'green'! I'm starting slow and will work my way up to living an environmentally friendly lifestyle.
Baby steps:
-- Recycling --
Aluminum cans are easy to recycle, and you can find places that will even pay you for aluminum! Recycled aluminum can be reused again and again, and saves not only natural resources but energy and money as well. My family actually already recycles aluminum - we generally have a large bag that we place crushed cans into.
Batteries are often overlooked, but I am recycling them because in a landfill they often leak out many substances such as zinc, lead, nickel, manganese, cadmium, and alkalines into the water table below the landfill. Though it's not a hugely recognized hazard, it's not stuff you want in your water! For this measure I have bought a large plastic container, which is hanging in our pantry and is labeled for batteries. So when one of my family members goes to throw a battery away, hopefully they'll see the container and toss them in.
Plastic bags will be a little tougher for me to stop using. We use them for so many things in my family, especially with waste disposal. My brother recently gave us some fabric shopping bags from his workplace that I will get into the habit of using eventually. I always take a plastic bag with me when I walk Brandy to pick up her poop, but I am going to look at our local pet stores for
biodegradable poop bags. For now, I'm going to have to make due with the plastic bags. My workplace has a container for recycling plastic bags, so we will start to use less of them and recycle what we don't need. Plastic bags are costly to make as well as to clean up, so it's a very good thing to recycle them.
