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Tip # 1 Get on Your Bike!
- For every mile you ride your bike instead of driving a car, you avoid the production of about one pound of carbon dioxide.
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Tip # 2 Save Water with Powder Detergents
- Switch
from liquid detergents to powders. Laundry liquids are mostly water
(approx. 80%). It costs energy and packaging to bring this water to the
consumer.
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Tip # 3 Save a Tree, or Two or Three
- Get
tough on tissues. If every household in the U.S. replaced one box of 85
sheet virgin fiber facial tissues with 100% recycled ones, we could
save: 87,700 trees, 226,500 cubic feet of landfill space (equal to 330
full garbage trucks), 31 million gallons of water (Annual supply for
240 families of four), and avoid 5,300 pounds of pollution! Buy only
recycled paper products for your office, bathroom and kitchen.
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Tip # 4 Check Your Water Heater
- Keep your
water heater thermostat no higher than 120°F. Save 550 lbs. of carbon
dioxide and $30 per year. Talk to your building or condo manager to
upgrade the efficiency of the boiler in your building to magnify the
savings.
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Tip # 5 Change Your Light Bulbs
- Replace 3
frequently used light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs. This will
save approximately 300 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $60 per year.
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Tip #6 Muscle Mow Your Lawn
- Mowing for an
hour with a gasoline- powered lawn mower can produce as much air
pollution as a 350-mile drive in a car. Consider this alternative which
emits nothing other than clippings and burns calories too: push a
lightweight reel mower.
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Tip #7 Change Your Thermostat
- Conserve fuel
by turning down the heat at night and while you are away from your home
— or install a programmable thermostat. Setting the airconditioning
thermostat in your building to 76 degrees in the summer will
dramatically reduce your electricity bill and you'll do your bit to
save energy and the environment.
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Tip # 8 Reduce Garbage
- Buy products with
less packaging and recycle paper, plastic and glass. You can save
around 1,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide per year by reducing, reusing and
recycling.
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Tip # 9 Use Recycled Paper
- According to the
EPA, from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day, household waste increases by
more than 25% due to holiday gift -giving. When wrapping gifts,
remember to recycle and reuse. Also whenever possible use 100%
post-consumer recycled paper when printing and save approximately 5
lbs. of carbon dioxide per ream of paper.
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Tip # 10 Fill Your Dishwasher
Run your dishwasher
only with a full load. Save approximately 100 lbs. of carbon dioxide
and $40 per year. Why not set it to eco-mode to save even more energy
and water?
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