More ways you can help the earth

One of the ways my family helps the earth is we have a compost bin in our backyard .
We buy the things with the least amount of packaging, which means that companies don't have to cut down as many trees or use as much plastic.

Here's a craft you can do with a milk container.
With the milk container take 0ff the lid and cut a hole in the bottom. You can make a spy glass or fake binoculars or make it what ever you want it to be. Then recycle or keep it when you're done with it .

Here is another idea for what to do with paper scraps. My family uses junk mail and old papers and burn it in a bonfire or campfire instead of ripping off perfectly good pieces of notebook paper or good paper.

Don't buy energy light bulbs or the "good for the Earth" light bulbs cause they contain mercury. When they get to the dump/landfill the mercury finds its way into our water and our soil so please buy the regular bulbs or tell your parents to buy those .

Also, whenever I am cutting out something I put all the scraps in the recycling bin



WAIT TILL EIGHT

Wait till eight is a program my city runs .
If you can please wait to wash your dishes till eight . Wait to do your laundry till eight . Wait to water your garden and lawn till eight . In the summer grill outside instead of using the oven or stove . You know what if you wait till eight you actually save money too!!!!!!!!!! .
Conserving our resources is everyones business . If you don't do it then who will?

I don't just read a magazine or catalog then throw it away, I recycle it . I give it to my friends to read or let my family read it if they want to and then I put it in the bathroom for when I am using the toilet .

If your whole family has to go to the bathroom don't keep flushing it. Keep all the waste in the bowl and then flush it.

Have garage sales and yard sales and donate things instead of throwing them away. You can maybe even make a little bit of money too!!


Ride you bike or scooter or skate wherever possible ( bring water bottles) . Speaking of water bottles refill them or use the thick ones that companys hand out at expos some times . Speaking of expos don't grab like 50 brochures for a company that your family probably won't ever use or go too! If you do get a lot and don't need them recycle them .