Go Green tips for March 18th

Gotta tip you want to share with Sarah and the Go Green Ride at Five? Email her: sarah@921wvtk.com!

Here Sarah's groovy green tips for Thursday, March 18th:

• An incredible 69 percent of Americans still don’t recycle. Every once in a while, perhaps do an inventory check of your garbage can to make sure your entire family is on board the recycle ride!
• Air quality inside our homes is often much worse than the air outside. Ways we can improve it, non-toxic cleaners for a start and fill the house with plants, they absorb air pollutants and improve your ambiance!
• Check the weather forecast, first , and don't fertilize before a rain storm. Your fertilizer - along with your money - can just wash off your lawn and down the storm drain. Fertilizer runoff can pollute rivers and lakes; and cause problems in recreational areas or fishing grounds.

Making and even recycling plastic water bottles uses energy and releases pollution, and every year, millions of them wind up in landfill. It's not worth the waste, it’s not worth the money spent. Hello…tap water is free! And bottled water is often just tap water with a fancy label and a high price, and it's not any better for you. In fact, Consumer Reports found that about a quarter of bottled water actually comes from the tap.
Buy yourself one solid, attractive, reusable aluminum or stainless steel bottle and fill it with tap. If you're concerned about water quality or don't like the taste, then try a filter, research them online, they’re inexpensive and you come out way ahead in the trade off. Tap water, a better green choice…maybe I should re-phrase that? 92.1 WVTK