Do you make conscious effort to reduce, reuse, and recycle?

We do reduce, reuse and recycle. However, we do it mostly to save money, not to be "green". We save all of our bottles and cans and take them to the recycling center to get our deposits back.

We buy as few paper products as possible. We use dish towels and rags instead of paper towels, washable plastic cups instead of Dixie cups, Tupperware instead of plastic baggies, handkerchiefs instead of Kleenex, washable plates instead of paper plates, a reusable coffee filter instead of paper coffee filters... Toilet paper is the only paper product we buy regularly. We keep tub liners in our kitchen sinks.

When the tub liners fill up with water, we use that water to water our plants outside. This is the only water we use to water outdoor plants. If they were food plants we might.

We buy all our clothing used.

I do try but I'm thwarted by my husband who doesn't much care. Many other people in my family don't much care either as they throw everything away. So I try to recycle and he constantly throws stuff away.

I guess we aren't that good about it. I try to but it just doesn't work out as well as I would like.

I don't make any concious effort to do any. But in my neighborhood there are people who come around with their own vehicles and go through everyone's trash to recycle and I guess that's how they make extra money. So they basically do the recycling for you and make money at the same time.

Where I live, there is no monthly trash bill. Instead, you have to purchase special trash bags at $2 a piece. And, because of that cost and the impact on the environment, everyone recycles.As much as it can be a pain, it certainly makes you more away of everything that you throw away, that could be recycled.

Plus, we have been trying to buy items with "minimal packaging".

I recycle quite a bit. In fact, I probably recycle just about everything that can be recycled. I don't make an effort to reduce though, and I only reuse something when it's beneficial to do so - not because it's the "green" thing to do.

Because of the amount of recycling I do, I still think I do fairly well at this in general. I don't make that much of a conscious effort, but my municipality makes it pretty easy to recycle. I like how convenient it is.

I've heard that other areas around North America sometimes make it difficult for people, and I think that's really unfortunate. If you make recycling the best and most convenient option available, you won't need to do any extra convincing.

I make an effort. I have my own methods and that includes recycling paper, plastic and cans. I also am into conservation so that I am not causing problems for the environment any more than I can absolutely help.

I reuse plastic bags and I have the green bags. My only problem with the green bags is that I need so many and I have not gotten as many as I need to pick up all my groceries in one trip.

I try but I'm not obsessive about it. I hate to see things go to waste so I try to reuse what I can and if I can't I give it to somebody who can. I throw my paper, plastic and glass in the recycling bin for weekly pickup and put my fruit and vegetable scraps out by the hedge for the birds and bunnies who live there.It's like an informal nature preserve, I guess, the hedges are thick and we pile our yard waste out there for composting and gives the critters some natural protection as well.

I try to buy fresh foods that don't have a lot of packaging to reduce the amount of trash we put out. Boxed and convenience foods aren't as healthy, anyway, so I'm protecting my family's health as well as the environment's! I also put a lot of things that are still useful out by the curb so anybody who can use it can take it for free.

We buy abandoned storage units and clean them out and sometimes a lot of it is trashy and nothing I'd want to sell, but you'd be surprised what people will take off your hands if it's free!

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