Last Week's Tips to Live Green

Tip # 1 Be a Green Shopper
Avoid individually packaged items. Even though the individual sizes do seem more convenient, they also produce more waste with their packaging than the larger sizes. You can buy the larger sizes and then divide up the food at home in reusable containers to avoid the excess garbage.
Tip # 2 Paper or Plastic
While plastic takes less energy to produce than paper, and produces less pollutants, paper can be composted, while plastic cannot. So what is the right answer? When bagging your groceries, bring your own string or cloth bags that can be reused.
Tip #3 Bottled Water
In the U.S. alone, we use 1.5 million barrels of oil each year just to create plastic water bottles, and only 12% are recycled. Bring your own water from home in a reusable bottle.