Green Your Spring Cleaning
Posted by Alfonso "Fonz" Salazar on
Happy Earth Day!
We all want to to protect our planet and Earth Day is a great reminder that we need to be careful in our day-to-day activities. It's good that Earth Day falls in the middle of everyone spring cleaning, so we can take time to "green up" our storage, organization and decorating. In order to reduce your impact on the environment and spruce up your home this spring, try some of these strategies:
1. Storage: When you look in your pantry or refrigerator, you will likely see a lot of plastic containers. These are extremely common and convenient to store goods in, but they are also extremely harmful to the environment to make. Think about switching to glass containers (or reusing jam and pasta jars) to store rice, nuts, popcorn,…
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