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Clean your barbeque grill with half a peeled white onion

7/13/2017

Clean your barbeque grill with half a peeled white onion; just heat the grill and rub it with the onion cut-side down. For more information, check out afewsteps.org.

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For more details, see this article from WonderHowTo.com

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Recycle your old 3-ring binders

7/8/2017

Recycle your old 3-ring binders at Office Depot in exchange for $2 off a new binder purchase.

Bring your old binders to any Office Depot® OfficeMax® location to be recycled. A store representative will exchange your old binder for a $2 Instant Savings off of a same day binder purchase! This is an ongoing program, so you can bring them in at any time. Recycling keeps these materials out of landfills and saves resources.

Get $2 off the purchase of any new binder when you recycle any binder in the same transaction. They will accept any brand of old binder, but it must be empty. You can bring in as many binders for recycling as you wish; however, there is a limit of 6 discounts toward a new binder purchase per day per household/business. The recycling and purchase must be made same day and in one transaction. Multipacks count as one. The discount is applied only to purchased binders, will not be applied to any free binders with a purchase, and there is no cash back. Not valid on prior purchases or purchases made with Store Purchasing, Procurement or Retail Connect Cards.

Give rubber bands from newspapers to your mail carrier

7/8/2017

Put rubber bands from newspapers into a baggy and leave out for your mail carrier or bring to the post office for reuse.

Do you have a big ball of rubber bands saved from all your newspapers? The postal service can make use of them! Just put them out by your mail box or mail slot with a note for your carrier, or bring them to the post office.

Rubber is harvested from trees growing in tropical areas. Harvesting and production have a number of environmental and human health impacts. According to WordPress.com: "Natural rubber processing sector consumes large volumes of water and energy and uses large amount of chemicals as well as other utilities. It also discharges massive amounts of wastes and effluents. The most common environmental issues are wastewater containing chemicals and smell, hazardous waste, noise, and thermal emission."(1)

Reusing rubber bands helps cut down on the need for new resources. According to Alliance Rubber Company, "A recent study by Malcolm Pirnie Inc., a leading environmental engineering firm, shows that reusing 10 pounds of rubber instead of virgin rubber prevents approximately 10 pounds of CO2 being released into the atmosphere. In addition, the consumption of oil (which is used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber) falls by one gallon."(2)

(1) VISHNU V., C.S. PRIYADARSHINI, and H. HILBERT. October 3, 2011. Environmental Issues Caused by Rubber Industry. https://businessimpactenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/environmental-issues-caused-by-rubber-industry/
(2)https://www.rubberband.com/news-events/45/reusable-rubber-bands-pack-a-powerful-environmental-punch-saving-money-and-resources

Clean your barbeque grill with half a peeled white onion

Recycle your old 3-ring binders

Give rubber bands from newspapers to your mail carrier

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