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The three R’s of environmentalism are reduce, reuse, and recycle. They are critical for green families to know and consider in daily existance as they frequently serve as the foundation for green goals and family ideals. All three of them should be considered whenever we take out the trash or buy new products for the home.

Reducing basically means junking things you don’t need to ; making less rubbish. When making purchases it is important to determine if the products you are buying are really necessary. Many times we have a tendency to find that we buy many luxury items along side the necessities. There is nothing wrong with treating yourself sometimes but as a rule simplicity is better. If you do decide to buy, you can still scale back your rubbish heap contribution buy choosing to buy products that will last for ages or have another use later on.

Purchasing reusable items that needn’t be disposed of is another good way to dodge dump waste. It is environmentally reckless to use disposable products that may only be used once then was disposed of. This puts a burden on our heavenly resources and creates unnecessary waste.

Recycling is the process by which materials are picked up and used as a foundation for new products or materials. Recycling items that you might otherwise dump decreases dump waste and helps us preserve energy and money. Buying products made of post buyer recycled materials inspires recycling.

Here are a selection of the ways that green families can practice the 3 R’s:

1. Use dishes, flatware, and glasses instead of their disposable counterparts.
2. Set out cloth napkins for family meals.
3. Use cloth diapers and cloth baby wipes.
4. Start a compost pile for kitchen scraps.
5. Ask yourself if that item you have your eye on is a necessity or a luxury.
6. Donate toys and clothes you no longer have a use for to others that can use them.
7. Instead of buying new check out second hand stores or online message boards like Craigslist and Freecycle.
8. Start an organic garden to reduce your grocery bill and time spent shopping.
9. Buy rechargeable batteries.
10. Invest in reusable shopping bags and stop using the paper and plastic ones provided by the store.
11. Join a book or clothing swap.
12. Recycle your old cell phones and eyeglasses.
13. Use paper scraps and old magazines for kids craft projects.
14. Don’t purchase greeting cards and invitations from the store, send digital invites and greetings instead.
15. Use worn out clothing and make a memory quilt that will be treasured for generations to come.

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Go green simply by reusing glass jars from sauces, olives, jams and even spices. Instead washing jars out and throwing them in the recycling or, say it isn’t so, the rubbish, use them again. It’s so simple to soak the label off, grab masking tape (it peels off simply) and re-label them for left-over soup or anything you can think of, actually. You go to a warehouse greengrocer and see a gallon of artichoke hearts but what do you do with that huge jar after the goodies are gone stumps you. Put your flour in it to keep bugs out or use it for the jumbo bag of coffee beans you’ve been needing to put in the fridge. Glass freezes well as long as you don’t subject it to extreme temperature changes and leave room for the food to expand while it’s freezing. When freezing liquids always leave 1/2 to 1 inch of room from the top of the jar and keep the lid loose until your food is frozen so the jar won’t break.

Go green easily using glass jars and utilize the bulk foods. Most stores have bulk cereals, pastas, snack foods and other staples that glass jars and put in jars at home. They also have spices, honey, nut butters and syrups so why not reuse the same type jars for that? You’re saving resources, counter clutter and you don’t have to guess what’s in the jar; if you use masking tape labels even spices aren’t a mystery. When the item inside the jar changes, peel off the old tape, put on a new piece and voila, is in the jar gets a new life, again.

Go green easily with reused jars and be healthier. There is a lot of controversy about storing and microwaving food in plastic storage containers. Too many types of plastic leach unhealthy chemicals and vapors into the hot food when it’s cooking and also as it cools in the container. Glass doesn’t leach, leak or warp when heated There’s a built-in safety feature. Using 8-12 ounce jam jars to store left-over soup will give everyone their own cups of plastic leach unhealthy chemicals and serve, so clean up is a breeze.

Going green is easier than you may have thought and you have the start of a new storage container collection already in your cupboard. Soak off the labels, use tape for new labels, fill them up and reuse them when they empty. What could be easier? Money, resources and your healthiness are saved in larger doses for the future.

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