Dumping things in your garbage bin for collection by the local municipality\’s refuse truck means that along with everyone\’s litter, workers are forced to delve through a mountain of stinking debris in order to recycle a whopping 70% of the garbage that comes in via skip hire. Let us take a look to see what we can do about recycling in our homes and avoiding the skip as a dumping ground as much as we can.

The world is becoming overwhelmed by plastic – it washes up on the beaches, it lies around in garbage dumps for ever and very little of it biodegrades even after many years. Mothers, think about using toweling diapers instead of disposable ones. There are many new designs on the market which could mean that instead of using hundreds of diapers over a period of time, you will only need a few. These come with inner linings which are completely washable. Think of the huge amount of saving this will result in! Take those dollars and put them into an account for yourself or your baby to enjoy later or put it to better use that diapers which clog up our sensitive eco-system.

The first thing to be considered is plastic. This enormously user-friendly product has also become pesky to the environment with awful things happening such as seagulls choking on plastic packets to dolphins, seals and other wild life being trapped in plastic netting, plastic tubing and plastic fishing line. The deaths that they suffer as a result are appalling. By saving plastic you will be doing the eco system a huge favor. Start with your shopping. Avoid buying plastic wherever you can. Purchase bottled goods instead and re-use the bottles. Cut used plastic into pretty shapes and make ornamental flowers, lampshades, drawer linings and such. Encourage young mothers-to-be to invest in alternatives to plastic diapers. There are eco-friendly baby diapers on the market which have washable liners that are easy and simple to use and save young parents a great deal of money.

Invest in an earthworm farm or make your own with instructions from the Internet. Into this recycling wonder you will be able to place not only most of your garden waste but also the wasted vegetables and fruit from your kitchen (except for banana peels, earthworms hate them!). These worms turn your waste into the richest garden mulch you ever saw. This then goes back into your garden to grow your own vegetables and feed your trees, shrubs, flowers and lawn.

You needn\’t ever have your offcuts, garden or even vegetable waste thrown away to rot in a skip somewhere. Create a compost heap. The Internet has a wide variety of ways in which you can do this without attracting flies to your garden but resulting instead in glorious dark-brown mulch which you can plow back into your garden to keep it green and growing.

Newspaper mixed with wallpaper glue makes wonderful paper pulp. Place the paper pulp around a wire frame in the shape of a bird or fish or whatever suits your fancy and let it dry. Smooth your creations over with crack-filler and paint them with left-over paint to sell for pin money or to raise money for charities. Keep boxes and cartons neatly opened and packed according to size in the top of your garage. The next time you need a box for mailing use or for moving, you will know exactly where to find it.

Collect office waste. Make bundles off it along with waste-paper and cardboard and sell it to recycling companies yourself or encourage an unemployed person to do this instead. They can also collect soft-drink soda aluminum cans and sell them back to factories as well. Office waste paper without confidential information printed on one side can be collected and given to nursery schools for use in painting, drawing or writing on the back side of the paper. Nursery schools can never get enough of the stuff and will be extremely grateful for your services.

A simple tip to help the environment is by adding a signature to all your outgoing e-mails \”Save our trees and do not print this e-mail unless absolutely necessary\”. By doing your utmost to help protect our sensitive eco-system by recycling you will boost your self-esteem and that of others and save and earn quite a few pretty pennies in the process. Happy re-cycling!

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