Recycled Trash Bags
Seventh Generation Kitchen Trash Bags
There are 436 different facilities located within the United States that are responsible for the production of plastics and other materials that are derived from crude petroleum. These facilities not only send millions of bad emissions into the air, but they also create billions of pounds of waste on an annual basis. While these all seem pretty grim, there are ways to cut down those numbers and one of them is to purchase garbage bags made from recycled plastic.
Recycled plastic garbage bags are about twice as efficient to create as their new counterparts and indeed if every person made as their next purchase recycled plastic garbage bags instead of one made from new plastic, we would save almost 90,000 barrels of oil; not an insignificant amount of oil by any stretch of the imagination.
Purchasing recycled garbage bags is just one of the many small things that you can do to really help out in the fight against climate change and other environmental effects of our actions that might potentially harm us in future times. It does not really provide that much in the way of inconvenience and it does not change your actual lifestyle in any practical way. It’s a common sense solution to a problem we all have.
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KBB Green for the Eco-Friendly Driver
If you are interested in increasing the number of eco-friendly products that you use in day-to-day life, information will be your best ally. It is impossible for people to maintain their eco-friendly lifestyles without knowing which products will help them and which product will hinder them. Eco-friendly companies are in business to make money just like any other private enterprise and for that reason you should take anything they say with regards to eco-friendly living with a grain of salt. Only proper research will allow you to discover which eco-friendly products are the real deal.
As far as automobiles are concerned, your best resource for eco-friendly information is KBB Green. It is a great resource for people looking to cut down on their emissions and it has all of the information you need in order to make informed decisions when you purchase eco-friendly products in the automotive field. They have recently released their list of best automobiles from a green point of view in 2008 and the Toyota Prius is at the top of that list. This is no real surprise, but you might be surprised by the other nine cars that made the list.
To view the list and to take your first steps toward better knowledge regarding eco-friendly cars, visit the KBB Green website.
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Cotton Lightweight Shopping Bag
Cotton Lightweight Shopping Bag
When it comes right down to it, plastic bags are awful. While plastic is fantastic in many areas of our life, the person that came up with plastic bags really was not thinking that far ahead. They do massive damage to the environment when discarded and they can easily break with heavy items within them, forcing most grocery store clerks to double or even triple-bag items and potentially cause more environmental damage in the process. With all of these points aside, they also hurt your hand if you carry them for a long time. It’s really a wonder that anyone likes using them with all of these drawbacks in place.
Well, if you are looking for a good alternative to the plastic bag at your grocery store, consider purchasing two or three of these lightweight cotton shopping bags. They are made from cotton that has been recycled and that cotton has not been processed in any artificial manner. Furthermore, you can reuse these shopping bags whenever you want and carry them over your shoulder using the strap. In all of the different categories that plastic bags are deficient, the cotton lightweight shopping bag has fixed the problem.
More information on this shopping bag can be found here.
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The Soap Works Pet Shampoo
Soap Works Pet Shampoo
The Soap Works is just one of many companies continually working on creating products that are completely safe to the environment. It is a company that has built up a relatively good reputation as a creator of environmentally friendly products and it is partially because of products like their pet shampoo that they have been so successful within this field.
The pet shampoo that they created is completely natural. It contains various vegetable ingredients as well as chlorophyll and various essential oils to provide not only a cleaning experience for your pet, but also a very nice aroma after the cleaning is complete. All of the ingredients within the mixture have a neutral pH and do not contain any artificial cleaning chemicals. This means that they will not irritate your pet while at the same time getting them far cleaner than any artificial substance ever could. The shampoo product can easily be filed under the category of products that not only protect the environment, but also directly benefit you in your everyday life.
One bottle of this shampoo contains approximately 455 ml of the substance and it only costs $7.50 to purchase. More information about The Soap Works Pet Shampoo and other similar products can be found here.
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Pheromone-Based Moth Traps
Pheromone-Based Moth Traps
When you take a look at the various insecticides and pesticides of the world, two disturbing facts crop up. One is that the vast majority of the ones that are most effective are actually petrochemical products and this in turn means that every time you use one you increase the addictive hold that oil has over your life. The second fact is that many of the chemicals used in these types of insect killing products are harmful to the environment. You might remove the pest, but the soil and by extension everything else in your area will be negatively affected, even if the actual effect is impossible to see with the naked eye.
While there have been few alternatives available in the past, the present has pheromone-based moth traps. The pheromones that are released by the trap attract insects to fly into the trap where they then land and become trapped within a glue-like substance that is encased on the inside. The trapping is effective and it is done through completely natural chemicals that will do no damage whatsoever to the environment.
It is clean, efficient, effective and best of all only costs $4.99 for a single trap. More information on this innovative solution to pest problems can be found here.
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Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs
Switching from conventional light bulbs to ones that are fluorescent is one of the oldest energy saving tricks in the book. However, despite the length of time that this option has been around, it is still woefully underused to the point where now that people are really starting to warm up to the idea there are already many new generations in technological advancement behind this relatively simple concept.
There is no question that these compact fluorescent light bulbs will cost you more money up front, ranging from $5.99 to $7.99 depending on the bulb that you want. However, when you consider the fact that the average fluorescent light bulb of this kind is seven times more efficient than its incandescent counterpart, the truth of the matter is that the money you save each month on energy combined with the money you save by purchasing fewer new light bulbs in the future will actually have you saving money in the long run.
The correct conclusion to be reached in this case is that these types of light bulbs represent yet another area in which the interests of the environment and the interests of your long term finances are compatible. With the number of areas like that cropping up in each post, it is a wonder that more people are not environmentally conscious.
Read more about Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs.
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Earth Friendly Furniture Polish
Earth Friendly Furniture Polish
Furniture polish, like the cleaning chemicals that were discussed before, is often terribly harmful to the environment because it is often made from petrochemical products similar to those that are used in cleaning products. Once again however, the real shame of this is that you don’t need those petrochemicals to create a polished surface that shines like a mirror. All you need is a little scientific knowledge and you can buy that in the form of the mixture that comes in the Earth Friendly Furniture Polish bottle.
This furniture polish bottle contains a mixture including oil from oranges and olives, which when combined with other natural ingredients has the ability to create some of the most powerful polishing compounds that have ever been seen. The mixture itself is friendly to the environment and since the spray bottle comes in a naturally spraying container that does not use aerosols or materials that are environmentally unfriendly, you can enjoy fantastically polished finishes combined with the knowledge that your polishing is not harming the environment in any way.
One bottle of the polish contains 650 ml of the substance and costs $9.99. More information on it can be found here.
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Nature Clean Vinegar
Nature Clean Vinegar
Cleaning products are some of the worst culprits when it comes to environmental damage. Not only are most of them petrochemical products (i.e. products that were derived from oil or one of the other fossil fuels), but since they are often used generously over a surface that is being cleaned, they leak a lot and do environmental damage to the surrounding area on an almost daily basis. Most of these products are not particularly effective either, which is doubly unfortunate since natural substances can do the job so much better.
Nature Clean Vinegar proves that point immediately. This unique and non-toxic mixture of natural ingredients only contains 5% vinegar by volume, but it is enough to clean even the toughest stains that you might encounter without leaving any streaks behind as a result of the cleaning process. If everyone abandoned their petrochemical cleaning products in favor of products like these, the neighborhood would be cleaner and the environment would be healthier.
Nature Clean Vinegar is an excellent product, because it is a great way to illustrate that switching to an environmentally friendly way of life does not have to harm your lifestyle or the way you go about your daily routine.
One container of Nature Clean Vinegar ships for $72.00 and contains 20 L of the actual cleaning substance. More information about it can be found here.
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All Natural Mate Mist Air Freshener
All Natural Mate Mist Air Freshener
Of all of the different products that people use on a regular basis, air freshening products are amongst the chief culprits when it comes to environmental damage. Aerosol based sprays in particular are especially nasty and since all they do is cover up the previous smell, what you might find is a weird scented combination of aromas and a weaker ozone layer as a result of the use of those sprays.
Both of these problems are solved with the All Natural Mate Mist Air Freshener, a spray that does not use any kind of artificial propulsion medium. It sprays naturally and just a minute amount can actually neutralize and remove the bad smell molecules, creating a much better end result than any aerosol spray you have ever used before. It can be used anywhere and with a completely environmentally friendly blending of ingredients it is as safe as can be.
One mist package contains 207 ml of the liquid, which should last a long time since you don’t need that much each time you use it. It comes in four different aromas as well, allowing your end product to smell like oranges, grapefruits, lemons or limes.
More information is available here
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Clotheslines: The Original Solar Powered Tool
One of the interesting aspects to solar energy is that like wind energy, it doesn’t really get credit for everything that it does. When people grow crops, dry off after a day at the beach or walk outside on a windy day and enjoy the breeze, they are really making use of solar and wind energy, although in a way that does not allow it to show up in the statistics.
Well, another great thing about solar and wind energy is that you can do this with a lot of things that do show up in the statistics and first on that list has to be the drying of clothes. Dryers use up a ridiculous amount of energy and that translates into more money every month on your bill. If you use a clothesline on the other hand, you get your energy for drying free from the Sun and the final product is a lot fresher in its feel and scent than you could ever get out of using the dryer.
Like all great ideas, using a clothesline is so simple that in many ways it is really laughable. You might be laughing now and that laughing is likely to continue until you take a look at your first energy bill sans dryer costs and see how much money you end up saving.
For a closer look at a clothesline that comes in under $50.00, have a look here.
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