24 simple ways to save The Environment

1. Recycle everything: newspapers, bottles and cans, aluminum foil, etc.
2. Turn off the lights, TV, or other electrical appliances when you are out of a room.
3. ride your bike or walk if its nice out and you have time to
4. Put up birdfeeders, birdhouses, and birdbaths.
5. Don't litter our roads and highways. Save trash and dispose of it at a rest stop.
6. Avoid buying food or household products in plastic or styrofoam containers whenever possible. (They cannot be recycled and do not break down in the environment.)
7. take quick showers
8. Use an electric lawn- mower instead of a gas-powered one.
9. Copy and print on both sides of paper.
10. if you are looking to buy a car be sure to consider gas mileage, not only is a gas guzzeling car bad for the enviroment, but gas prices are high and by not buying alot of gas you can save lots of money
11. reuse plastic bags if you must use them
12. Use only organic fertilizers
13. recycle
14. when its bright out open the blines insted of turning the light on
15. Use recycled paper.
16. Carpool if you are not able to walk
17. Don't use electrical appliances when you can easily do by hand, such as opening cans.
18. Store food in re-usable containers.
19. when shopping put all of the items in one bag insted of getting a seperate bag from every store
20. Review labels of household cleaners you use. Consider alternatives like baking soda, scouring pads, water or a little more elbow grease.
21. When no good alternatives exist to a toxic item, find the least amount required for an effective, sanitary result.
22. Don't leave the tap running
23. Wash at lower temperatures
24. Minimise dry-cleaning