- Utilize curbside recycling
- Reduce plastic bag consumption
- Buy secondhand clothing & household items
- Learn organic gardening
- Reuse boxes for storage
- Buy products with reusable packaging
- Snack on SunChips with the compostable bag
- Drink Capri Sun & turn in pouches to Terracycle
- Remove as much plastic from kitchen as possible
- Stop buying so many paper plates
- Make wall art with photo greeting cards
- Reuse plastic container lazy susan as picnicware
- Let the kids create things from the recycling bin
- Use the blank side of school papers as notepads
- Buy organic food
- Eat less meat
- Turn a favorite hobby into an eco-friendly one
- Read about greener living
- Wash full loads of laundry in cold water
- Use fragrance & dye-free laundry detergent
- Make natural cleaning products
- Avoid air fresheners & spray perfume
- Buy phthalate free children's hair & body wash
- Recycle toxic nail polish & buy safer alternatives
- Participate in Earth Day activities
- Remember to take reusable bags into the store
- Don’t buy plastic products with PVC
- Take shorter showers
- Read all ingredient labels
- Spread the word and educate others
Try one thing or try them all. If one of the green things to do isn't for you, move onto the next and try again at a later time. My family went almost two full months without using paper plates, but life is hectic and I hate doing dishes (we don't own a dishwasher), so we still use an occasional paper plate or two or four. That's okay for now. We are trying to be better than we used to be and that's what matters.
What green things do you do?
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