Go Green tips for March 30th

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 Tuesday, March 30th:

• How much room does a reusable shopping bag take up? Why not just keep one or two in your car to use for those quick shopping errands on the way home from work?
• Do you know what you can and can’t recycle? Go to addisoncountyrecycles.org. You’ll find all the information you need to better guide you through the whole process!
• Recycling a ton of 'waste' has twice the economic impact of burying it in the ground.

Let’s look at recycling by the numbers:
9 cubic yards: Amount of landfill space saved by recycling one ton of cardboard.
98 percent: Percentage of glass bottles in Denmark that are refillable. 98 percent of those are returned by consumers for reuse. Now, that’s an awesome example to follow!
20 million: Tons of electronic waste thrown away each year. One ton of scrap from discarded computers contains more gold than can be produced from 17 tons of gold ore.
544,000: Trees saved if every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber paper towels (70 sheets) with 100 percent recycled ones.
I could go on like this forever, but I think you know where I’m going with it. Reduce, reuse, recycle…reclaim. That’s the way to go green and we’ll help! 92.1 WVTK!