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8 Easy Ways to Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

There are simple ways to cut down on waste, from buying concentrated household products to buying in bulk. Today, I am going to share with you 8 ways you can recycle, reduce, and reuse. Buy in bulk or in loose. This makes them easy to wash and use time and time again. Use concentrated household products.

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From Trash To Teasure

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Earning from trash through recycling is a great way to earn some extra cash and help save the environment at the same time. Excess trash has been a common problem of all societies for decades, and recycling is a way to transform trash into something useful. Numerous websites are dedicated to buying these used electronics.

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7 Ways to Reduce Household Waste

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

From food waste to packaging to disposable items, there are a lot of resources being used by humans. A meal plan can be one of the best ways to avoid last-minute takeout runs, as well as ensure that you have a way to use the food you buy. It’s possible to bring your own bags for bulk food items in a lot of cases.

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Go Green This Halloween

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Tip # 2 Recycle/reuse costumes. If your child (or you) just has to have that store bought costume with all the non-biodegradable materials (you know, that one that costs you at least $20), then after its typical one time use, just donate to your local charity or sell it at your next garage sale or online. Re-purpose the used costume.

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Daily Frugal Tip: 10 Uses For Mason Jars

Couponing 101

Check out Coupon Teacher’s post on 10 different uses for mason jars ! I love it when one object has many different uses. I personally love the idea of using mason jars to store dry grains and legumes. These are cheap to buy in bulk, too. (Or Daily Frugal Tip: 10 Uses For Mason Jars is a post from Couponing 101.

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How to Become an Earth Friendly Consumer

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We have become addicted to the term “antibacterial&# and use hyper strong chemical pollutants to clean our homes. Do they recycle? Do they use recycled products? Buy in bulk. Buy in bulk as many items as you can. Use online banking. Recycle, recycle, recycle. Pass it on.

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Tips for Wasting Less Food

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

This isn’t a big problem if excess food from one meal is recycled as meals or snacks in the following days, but you need to rethink your portion control if it’s just going straight in the bin. to use them up. If they’re right in front of you every time you open the fridge, it should encourage you to use them up.

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