- Junk your junk mail. Many organizations will help you stop marketers from sending you all these offer letters and catalog.
Here are a few options:- 41Pounds.org
- Greendimes.com
- Opt Out Prescreen
- Catalog Choice
- Reduce your plastics
- Drop the plastic bag. Use reusable shopping bags for your groceries.
- Replace your water bottles with a reusable water container.
- Think about sustainable when you purchase any lasting products
- Exchange your old books
- Campus bookstore buys back your old textbooks
- Have a lot of paperbacks? checkout Book Mooch
- Reduce your paper consumption
- Photocopy or print on both sides of the page and reuse paper until both sides are used up.
- Reduce the number of copies of any given document.
- Buy recycled, chlorine-free paper and recycle office paper when you are finished with it.
- Reuse envelopes.
- Use a plain paper fax machine so you can reuse and recycle the paper.
- Buy one copy of the newspaper and leave it in the staff room for everyone to share over lunch and breaks.
- Take your old magazines to a coffee shop or a doctor's office.
- Green your coffee
- Take your own ceramic or china coffee cup to work or when you go to the coffee shop.
- Buy a permanent cloth or mesh coffee filter instead of disposable paper filters.
- Transportation
- Carpool with a coworker, walk or ride a bike to work. It saves gas and you get some exercise.
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