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Ways to Make Your Next Move More Eco Friendly

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We recently moved halfway across the country from Illinois to Arizona. Here are some ways we recycled our moving waste: Creative Ways to Use the Excess Supply. Building a fort out of the boxes is another way to recycle and keep the kids entertained. We hauled all the excess out to recycling on our curbside recycling day.

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Thrifty gardening Tips

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Recycle to fertilize. The University of Illinois Extension can get you up to speed on those. Brown broadly represents carbon found in fibrous material such as twigs and stems, straw, cardboard and roots, as well as old cotton and woollen clothes. Green refers to nitrogen found in plant leaves, stems, grass, flowers and weeds.

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