What did you do for Earth Day?

Do you do your part?

Nope I find myself too busy to save the earth

 

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Yes, atleast pop bottles to get my deposit back!

 

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I recycle everything I can.

 

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I recycle everything, and I do the reusable shopping bag thing

 

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I have the funny light bulbs, recycle, and have reusable shopping bags.

 

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I have the bulbs, bags, recycle and compost!

 

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I do all those things plus I am looking into solar panels... Gold Star Please:)

 

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Hey so yesterday was Earth Day!  If your like me every earth day you feel a  bunch of  guilt because the earth is so pretty and all of our buildings and parking lots and landfills are trashing this place!  Booo.... Did you decide to make any changes?  Maybe switching to those funny looking light bulbs, or investing in some of those awesome reusable grocery bags???  Hey, every box or can or bottle I recycle I feel a little better, like I am doing my part.  Oprah did a great Earth Day show.  They talked about compost bins.  I was just looking up compost bins last week!  I think it would be great to have a compost bin, just think atleast that much of your waste would be in your backyard turning itself into awesome soil, instead of adding to a heap of trash at the landfill.  I didn't know you could use shredded paper in a compost bin, (duh!), that's great.  I am always sort of worried someone might put my shreds back together and steal my info.(I'm not a paranoid, but I saw on an episode of Law and Order once, a crime gang hired homeless to put shredded paper back together!  Can you believe that?) Anyhow, what I am saying is I would rather turn my shredded bills into soil rather than the Law and Order thing.  Anyhow, this is the link to that site I found compost bins on...

http://www.composters.com/

I already use canvas bags for my groceries.  There are so many benefits.....

1.  No more bags ripping and eggs breaking and that whole mess you sometimes get with paper or plastic. 

2.  They hold a ton, and they have really great handles that make them super easy to carry, even when they are loaded. 

3. I don't have those damn plastic bags all over my house.  For a while I thought the bags would take over the flippin' kitchen, what a pain.  

4. Plastic bags take like forever to breakdown, so I feel no guilt for adding any plastic bags to the landfill. 

5.  The bags I bought were made by blind people somewhere, that's what the tag said, so double bonus, American jobs for the disabled!!

So basically I'm not adding to the paper and plastic problem plus I love the bags because they are so easy to lug around. 

Here is a site to get great bags.. or their bags are available at ACE Hardware, they are really reasonably priced!

http://www.onebagatatime.com/index.php?page=order

So, what do you do to do your part?  Or atleast pitch in a little?