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How to Establish an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle at Home

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

People lived happy and healthy lives before the advent of the huge range of cleaning products that currently adorn our supermarket shelves; their clothes, bodies and homes were perfectly clean as well. Look for eco-friendly products with limited recyclable packaging, low-toxicity, no petrochemicals, are biodegradable and phosphate-free.

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Go Green This Halloween

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We do put up decorations (ones I buy at garage sales or thrift stores and reuse each year). Tip # 2 Recycle/reuse costumes. Encourage your child to use their imaginations to come up with a costume out of materials on hand at home. Like me, buy them used and then reuse them each year. Don’t buy, make.

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Entenmann’s Little Bites and Earth Day Giveaway

Nicoles Nickels

Kids can be recycling pros and turn trash into cash for their schools through a new campaign with snack time favorite Entenmann’s Little Bites to create a fully recyclable lunch! Entenmann’s Little Bites “RecycleReuse…Replenish” Fully Recyclable Lunch Tips: Recycle. Make compost at home!

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Packing Light: Tips for Your Toiletry Bag

Shereen Travels Cheap

I rounded up all the things I normally use at home. Before I got TSA PreCheck, I was tired of having half a tube of mini toothpaste with me when I got home and not wanting to take two with me on the next trip, so I wasn't wasting that half tube, so I started using toothpaste tabs. You want to look good in pics.

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How To Pack A Waste-Free Lunch

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Everything in that lunch bag can be washed and reused or at least an be dealt with in an environmentally-friendly manner. For example, most leftover food scraps can even be composted ( other than meat, of course ) so they can be brought home if a school or workplace doesn’t do composting. It’s quite simple, really.

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Simple But Effective Steps of Waste Management

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Big companies might require daily services whereas at home, you could even have the waste disposal people come once a week. However, to ensure that everything runs smoothly at your home or work, you need to know how to effectively contribute. For example, you should at least have separate bins for recyclable and non-recyclable waste.

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How to Be Green and Save Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You can get some great regular updates on reusing and recycling at this money saving blog. Great Ways To Save Money On Energy Bills At Home. You may also be surprised at how much better it tastes that ingredients that have been shipped from around the world – you can’t beat instant freshness.