Go Green tips for March 26th

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 Friday, March 26th:

• Challenge your kids to make art from the recycling! It’s a fun project and a great way to encourage them to make new of old!
• Do you make the habit of buying those small garbage bags for your bathroom can? Instead, save the money and go without. Just dump the small can into your larger one when it’s full. A little less plastic and a few more coins in the purse.
• Make use of your ceiling fan if you have it! Running it clockwise at a slow speed re-circulates warmer air that accumulates at the ceiling, reducing energy consumption by up to 10 percent.


I wish I had a dime, no make that a dollar, aim high, I always say, for everytime I’ve wondered or been asked if something can be recycled. Be it milk cartons, yogurt containers, aerosol cans, ammunition. Bubble wrap, bricks, phone books, Styrofoam—the list is never ending and the answers aren’t always simple. There are somethings that have to be disposed of carefully. Like fluorescent bulbs, for example. They contain mercury and need to kept out of the trash. Whatever it is you need to dispose of, check with the Addison County Solid Waste Management District’s website. Go addisoncountyrecycles.org to find out what to do with what. I was very surprised to find out many things we’d been putting in our recycle bin that didn’t belong there! Greener today than I was yesterday on 921 WVTK.