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If you can't go completely green and make a long and hard commitment, but still want to help the environment, buy and use environmmently friendly products! Using environmmentaly friendly products, helps conserve our natural resources, and helps keep the waste we throw out to a minimun. All these proucts range from jewelry to baby products, from household cleaning products and body care. The littlest thing help most in situations when you can't buy solar panels, or buy hybrid cars. Recycling, reuseing, carpooling, turning off your computer wheen your not at home and many more are things you can do, that reduces the impact that you make on the environment. In you life, you will use alot of water, paper, and energy, read on to learn what you can do and buy that would make you and your home a more earth friendly place.
 * Some Interesting Facts...**

Americans' yearly waste would fill a whole line of garbage trucks long enough to run around the Earth six times and reach halfway to the moon.

The average waste per person a day is about 4.2 pounds a day.

80% of waste goes to landfills and 10% of waste is recycled.

38.1% of waste is household paper. (Paper! And all that paper is now going to a landfill. It would take us 2 seconds to throw paper in a separate bin other than our thrash, yet we are so lazy to do that.)



Everyday, we use so many things that we can recycle, and that means just having a sparate bag or bin for recycables, but we still choose to throw away. When we do that, we are making more and more landfills, and some of that trash gets into the water, like oceans and lakes, poluting the water, and harming all the wildlife that lives around it and in it.

Every time you are about to throw away a glass bottle, or a paper you dont need anymore, think for a second, think about how you can reuse it or recycle it. Many schools and large buildings have recycling bins outside. As you drive to school or work, you can just drop your recycleables off. You would be helping the environment, and yourself.

Somtimes littlest thing help most. Recycling, reuseing, carpooling, turning off your computer wheen your not at home and more!



There are so many things that are earth friendly, not just the items listed above! You can tell earth friendly items apart from ones that are not, because earth friendly products usually have a sign or a lable that indicates their earthfriendliness. Notice a sing or logo on each of these products? (Hint: the sing has a peach and lemon on it.)
 * Some examples of earth friendly products are...**
 * Recycled Paper - instead of throwing paper away, you can recyle it, and then the next time you go to the store, instead of buying new, never used paper, buy recyled paper. It is the same quality, and it's cheeper for you, and the company to make it.
 * Recycled facial tissue - again, same qulity and cheeper to make and buy.
 * Art work and Home decor make from recycled thrash - instead of artist makeing sculptures and decadants out of new material, they are choosing to reuse their trash, or somebody elses, and make beautiful works of art with them.

In conclusion, dont just say that you dont have to help save this planet by recycling or by other methods, because the person down the street will. Get up and start with buying earth friendly products!

__Sources__
http://www.ecos.com/ http://www.earthfriendlyfinds.com/