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Six Ways to Reuse Your Plastic Grocery Bags

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You can even save a few plastic grocery bags and reuse them at your local farmer’s market or grocery store. Recycle If none of these circumstances apply to you, you can always recycle your grocery bags. Many grocery stores will have a place where you can bring your plastic bags and leave them to be recycled.

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From Trash To Teasure

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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. A website called Recyclebank pays out coupons for recycling these items.

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Competing With Yourself To Save On Utility Bills

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I view each month’s bill – whether it be from the water company, the electric utility, or the natural gas provider – as a way to gauge how well I am doing in my efforts to both conserve energy and save money. While I don’t measure recyclables, I do keep track of how much trash I dispose of each week.

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How To Re-use Common Items

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If something is useful and I might personally use it later, it gets saved and used again. Below is a list of things I (or hubby) have personally saved and reused. We save boxes to ship items. We save heavy boxes to use as storage for all our other stuff – including once a year items for things like Christmas. Containers.

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