Some tips to share from The Green Book (www.readthegreenbook.com):
Pump up: Properly inflated tires improve gas mileage by up to 3%. (Avg of 16 gallons/year)
Forget the receipt: Don't take ATM receipts (or any other you don't really need). ATM receipts are one of the top sources of litter on the planet. If everyone did this, is would save a roll of paper more than 2 BILLION feet long - enough to cricle the equator 15 times!!!
Stop junk mail: Go to www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmailinglist. This will save 1.5 trees of junk mail annually.
Don't wash your own car: Commercial car washes use up to 100 gallons LESS to wash a car. They also often recycle and reuse rinse water. If everyone did it just once, up to 8.7 billlion gallons of water could be saved and some 12 billion gallons of soapy, polluted water could be diverted from rivers, lakes and streams. Driving through these has become a favorits pasttime of Avery's.
Loose the phone book: They are figuring on using on-line directories. I like thumbing through one, so this is hard for me to give up. I do recycle mine though. The reason this is on the list is that many people don't recycle them and therefore they create 10 percent of the waste at dump sites. Yikes.
Bar soap: You use less soap, therefore less into the water system, with a bar versus liquid pump. I like my liquid shower soaps, but this is another I can easily switch.
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