You are probably considering how to improve your daily practices that will reduce waste and use sustainable materials. You may be surprised how easy it is to get started and you may be doing some of them now. Here is your starter list:
Cloth Shopping Bags.
Bring your own shopping bags into the store and eliminate the plastic bags that the store typically gives you. With a little looking, you can now find these stylish cloth bags with carrying straps for sale. Buy a few to get started, keep them in the trunk of your car and start using them.
Cleaning Cloths.
How often do you throw away worn out clothing, towels, wash rags etc?
Next time you are cleaning out the drawers or closets, take some of the clothing that is suitable for making into rags and cut into 2 feet by 2 feet strips. Don't include buttons, zippers or other attachments that could make your new cleaning rags scratchy. Now that you have your "pile" of rags, decide where to store them and tell the rest of your family where they are and to start using them. Depending on what they are used for, you can wash them again several times for constant reusing. And, you won't have to buy so many paper towels. And, donate the rest of your clothing pile to a charitable organization that accepts them.
Newspapers.
Hopefully your community embraces recycling. Even if they don't, you can still recycle yourself. Keep a box or container out in the garage or someplace where moisture can't get to it.
Place all of your used newspapers into this container. When the container gets full, put it on the curb to be picked up by the recycling company. What? No recycling company? Well, think about how those newspapers could be used in a different way to extend their use: Packing material for anything you are mailing, cover material for those weekend projects such as painting or gift wrapping material for those do-it-yourself wrappers. Start thinking and talking about it and you will come up with 100 other uses!
Here's a company in Iowa that recycles clean cardboard and shreds it so it can be used as shipping materials. Their name is Corrugated Solutions/ Earth Stuf. You can contact them for your needs,too. For those of you that order from WholeMade, you will find your products are shipped with this material, too. No more messy shipping peanuts!
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