Environmental Help Desk Tip for Week of September 16, 2019
The Three Rs of Environmental Recovery
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Cutting your trash by half a bag each week saves at least 1100 pounds of CO2 a year.
Buy more minimally packaged and reusable goods when you shop. Compost vegetable waste. One pound of reduced or recycled waste reduces CO2 by at least a pound.
Making products from recycled (instead of raw) materials uses less energy and produces less waste: 30-55% less waste for paper products, 33% less for glass and 90% less for aluminum!
Provided by Upper Charles Climate Action – UCCA.350ma@gmail.com