Homes & Gardens: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

Looking for tips on how to enjoy your home more this year. Think of these resolutions to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle wherever you can.

1. Shop with a reusable grocery bag.

2. Your goal should be to put out one garbage bag a week. Everything else should go into your blue and green bins. If one of each isn’t enough, buy a second blue bin, one for newspapers and cardboard and the other for cans and bottles and for whatever else your community can recycle.

3. Everything else should be dropped off at one of your community’s recycling depot. Take a look at our new Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Section in the Resource Directory for ideas on how you and your family can follow the 3 R’s effectively.

4. Start your spring cleaning now. One box at a time and one room at a time. Now you have ideas for places you can take it too when you are in the mood. Get it out of the house and do not bring it back.

5. Make it a family affair. Ask everyone in the family to assist with their own belongings.

6. Thinking of downsizing or moving? This process will make it easier.

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