- Put your cigarettes in the cigarette receptacles
- Properly dispose of your chewing gum, drink can, packaging, paper etc
- Recycle! Put your recyclable paper in the receptacles located all over
campus
- Buy in bulk and avoid products with excessive packaging
- Think before you print! Make all necessary corrections before printing and,
if possible, use e-mail instead of sending printed letters. Print and copy on
both sides of the paper.
- Use products that come in reusable or refillable containers
- Reuse blank sides of paper for scribbling notes, lists or messages
- Reuse glass jars for food storage or storage of things like pens, pencils,
nails, buttons or screws
- Use rags instead of paper towels, cloths instead of paper napkins, and
handkerchiefs instead of tissues
- Reuse old file folders by sticking new adhesive labels over old ones
- Commit to using reusable plates, cups, mugs, and silverware instead of
disposable items. A styrofoam coffee cup will last for decades, while your
coffee lasts just a few minutes. Each year American throw away 25,000,000,000
Styrofoam cups, enough every year to circle the earth 436 times. (source: Oberlin college)
- Stop your junkmail. If 100,000 people stopped their junk mail, we could
save up to 150,000 trees annually. If a million people did this, we could save
up to a million and a half trees.
- In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times his/her adult
weight in garbage. If you add it up, this means that a 150-lb. adult will leave
a legacy of 90,000 lbs of trash for his/her children.
- Donate unwanted clothing or household goods to the Goodwill or Madeline's
House for reuse. Both are in Farmville. The Southside SPCA also runs a thrift
store in Keysville that helps homeless dogs, cats, puppies and kittens.
Learn More: Madeline's House and
Southside SPCA
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