Thanks to sustainable girl and my husband for finding and sending me her website for this one.
Brought a small towel in to work today and will be doing so going forward, to use to dry my hands in the bathroom instead of the wasteful paper towels.
I also have a couple of "ambiance" lighting items on my desk that are just, well, sadly, an energy sap. Turned them off and will probably be bringing them home and donating or selling them since they are purposeless except to use energy. Why resell or redistribute the energy sap instead of destroying it? Well, other folks are sure to continue to consume such things whether I choose to participate in it or not, and it's better for me to try to recycle them than to send them off to the pile of garbage at the landfill - they're not going to just disappear, they'll still exist somewhere, so someone (else) might as well enjoy them. Torn on this, but there is no "good" answer, if only I had never purchased them to begin with.
But, if we begin at all it is better than never beginning! So, I begin today. Welcome to the future!
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I comend you on getting rid of things that you don't want. Nother worse than having something that is nice or cool on your desk that takes up what, a kilowatt of power per year? I hope that the people you gave these trinkets too are enjoying them immensely.
Taking a towel to work? Ok, this one will throw you. Do you know that it takes more energy and water to wash and dry that one towel than it takes to produce those paper towels that you use in the restrooms? Not only that, but when you throw away a towel that you don't use anymore it takes well over twice as long to degrade than a whole forest of paper? Trees are RENEWABLE. I beleive that Warehouser plants something like 5 trees per 1 they cut down and that the use the same forest space for those trees?
As far as landfills that it seems you are worried about filling up, do you know that an area 50 miles by 50 miles and like a mile deep in the middle of nowhere would take the NATIONS trash for like the next 200 to 500 years? Hmmm...
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