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How to Establish an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle at Home

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Look for eco-friendly products with limited recyclable packaging, low-toxicity, no petrochemicals, are biodegradable and phosphate-free. Reduce your “stuff” – we are constantly being encouraged and enticed to buy more “stuff” in the consumer-driven societies in which we live.

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On Environmentalism Becoming Consumerism

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Items never before considered green – such as enormous packages of bottled water – are now being labeled as such. Those machines use plastic coffee pods that are often labeled as being recyclable – but only if you fully wash them out, take them apart, and separate all the pieces… which we know no one is doing.