Your Greeness

Why should we recycle? These fun facts ought to answer that burning question!

1. The average American manages to consume and use up around 650 lbs of paper in a year! That’s a lot of trees cut if we don’t reuse!
2. If all paper we used would actually be put back into recycling, a hundred tons of wood would be saved in over a years time!
3. When aluminum is recycled, it manages to save 95% of energy to make aluminum!
4. Every aluminum can recycled can save up enough energy to make a tv run for 3 hours!
5. Americans manage to consume and go through 2.5 million plastic bottles in an hours time!

Here’s a great idea that family and friends can engage in this holiday season. Why not exchange used greeting cards? Or reuse greeting cards?

Each year many of us receive wonderful greeting cards. However, most of them end up in the trash. This is not exactly a green practice.

We could change all this by agreeing with those close to us to reuse greeting cards. Maybe cover the old message with a sheet of construction paper and give it to someone else who you feel the same way about.

Your friends and family will appreciate your thoughtfulness and you will have helped the environment too!