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Being Environmentally Friendly Saves Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In my area a smaller bin equates to a smaller land tax bill. By only purchasing what we need and using what we buy we reduce the consumer demand for things, we save money by not spending on things we do not need and we reduce the clutter in our home. Learn to reduce, reuse recycle everything.

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Shed, Shred, and Get Ahead in 2013

Nicoles Nickels

Staples recently launched its Binder Recycling Program, which gives customers $2 off the purchase of a new binder for each binder they bring in to a Staples store to recycle. We definitely need to get a few boxes over to be shredded at Staples, I think we’ll try to do that once we tackle the taxes next weekend!

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How to Use a Credit Card to Save the World

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Well, there are plenty of big things that you can do, like driving a hybrid, recycling whenever possible and powering your home with clean and renewable resources. Unless you need the receipt for business or tax purposes, you are just going to throw it out anyway. Wanna go green? Save the paper.

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Reviewing The World’s Landfills – A Future Fictional Business Plan Excerpt

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to Waste Management World : “Exporting waste illegally to poorer countries has become a vast and growing international business, as companies try to minimize the costs of new environmental laws that tax waste or require that it is recycled or otherwise disposed of in an environmentally responsible way”. Their conclusion? “So