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Do you have a small idea to make this world Green? Mention if you already use it.
My big greening idea is really small. I want to help households in reducing its carbon footprint. Simply by using more efficient lighting, cooling and windows. Budget all of this from ones annual energy spend.
The small acts I use to have a greener presence is to recycle every scrap of paper, even envelops that come in post.
Plus, I never travel to a place if the work can be done over the internet, like banking / shopping / meetings.
Curious for more small ideas that can have a large impact.
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Adam Cross
Colleen Steen 500+
Enrico Petrucco 20+
I think you have been misinformed about the most "green" action for your case scenario.
It is better to re-use materials. The embodied energy spent in making your paper bags that you shred is wasted.
To be more "green" I would suggest buying some cotton or hemp bags and using indefinitely. Or at least until over worn and torn up. Then the cotton/hemp can be used for patching clothes, for rags, or composted if necessary.
Continually obtaining paper bags is wasteful and contributes to logging - even if 100% recycled since the recycled paper would be better used to replace virgin paper elsewhere.
I honestly can't remember the last time I used a store-supplied bag... I always use my rucksack.
Colleen Steen 500+
The question is..."Do you have a small idea to make this world Green? Mention if you already use it".
Adam apparently chooses paper over plastic, which seems to be accepted as a step in the right direction, and he DOES re-use materials. His idea is not "misinformed" at all.
You offer another good idea...thanks:>) BTW, I'm sure you know there is also a cost to producing cotton and hemp bags. I use canvas bags which have been passed out for free at conferences, meetings, etc.:>) They last FOREVER!!!
Adam Cross
Enrico Petrucco 20+
Though I dont really want to get into semantics, shredding paper and feeding to worms is disposal (composting). Though home composting is appropriate for involuntarily consumed paper (junk mail, etc), my point is that one can easily go beyond the "paper or plastic" question and intentionally consume neither.
Adam, I am sure that you try to be very sustainable and my comment was meant with the best intentions.
:)
Adam Cross
Colleen Steen 500+
Here's another idea, which I started doing a few years ago. I call it "on site composting".
I lay black plastic between the vegetable plants (recycled bags that potting soil comes in, and I re-use them every year), and all summer, pile compostable matter on the plastic. The sun, on the black plastic generates heat, which facilitates composting, and it serves as mulch while it is composting. At the beginning of the next season, I simply pick up the plastic, the composted material drops into the earth and is worked into the soil. The worms seem happy with the process, and so am I! It saves the old body from moving material around too many times:>)
Enrico Petrucco 20+
Or about as much as finely chopped cellulosic vegetable waste.
None of my wormeries have needed paper...
Any cellulose will do.
Colleen Steen 500+
I had a conversation with the worms just the other day...they are really very "flexible"...LOL:>)
Adam,
That's why I started "on site composting"...I didn't like carrying things around the yard too many times:>)
Colleen Steen 500+
Awareness is the first step, and once we start with small steps, it's really fun to move forward...in my humble opinion:>)
peter stonebridge