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8999 W. 123rd Street
Palos Park, Illinois 60464
708-671-3700
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Recycle Palos -
Reduce Your Footprint |
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►DOWNLOAD Carbon Footprint
Brochure |
Rate Your
Impact
These sites let you calculate your emissions, provide interactive games,
activities and lesson plans, and provide ways to reduce and offset those
emissions so that you can do your part to improve the environment.
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HOW YOU CAN REDUCE THE
AMOUNT OF WASTE YOU PRODUCE
With some planning, you can help decrease the amount of waste that will make
its way into a landfill. Here are a few examples:
When you shop, you should plan to bring home
fewer materials that will end up in the trash. You should:
- buy bulk-packaged items.
- buy products that aren't disposable.
- buy liquid products that are
concentrated.
- buy products that are recyclable.
- buy products that are enclosed in
reusable or recyclable containers.
- buy fruits and vegetables that are loose
instead of in packages or cans.
- use canvas or material shopping bags
instead of paper or plastic bags.
At home, work and school, you should:
- reuse items as many times as possible
(plastic containers, bags, etc.).
- use mugs, glasses and tableware that are
not made from paper or plastic.
- use a plastic or metal lunchbox instead
of paper bags.
- collect your old magazines and books and
donate them to local schools, hospitals or nursing homes.
- when leaving for vacation, cancel
delivery of your paper or have it delivered to a local school or needy
organization while you are gone.
- make note pads out of scrap paper.
- use both sides of paper for writing or
copying.
- use cloth towels and napkins instead of
paper.
- contact companies who send you unwanted
mail and ask to be removed from their mailing lists.
- use e-mail whenever possible.
- donate unwanted clothing or appliances
to charities.
- sell unwanted items at a community
garage sale.
- use a canvas or material bag for
carrying instead of paper or plastic bags.
- use plastic grocery bags for lining
household trash cans instead of purchasing plastic trash can liners.
In your yard, you should:
- compost leaves and grass cuttings
whenever possible.
- leave grass cuttings on the lawn or
place them around the base of trees and bushes.
- place chopped up food waste in your
vegetable garden and turn it into the soil.
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Adopt a Rainforest:
Students can adopt a parcel of rainforest in many different countries by
visiting The Rainforest Alliance at
www.rainforest-alliance.org |
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This information is not an
endorsement of any company, product, or service. |
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