Go Green tips for April 8th

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, April 8th:

• Driving green: Poor alignment not only causes tires to wear out more quickly, but also forces your engine to work harder. Align your tires, and save up to 10%. Cost Savings: 20 cents per gallon.
• Working out the future college student’s budget? One textbook can be as much as over a hundred dollars. I found a great site that students can actually rent textbooks from and save tons of green. It’s Chegg.com. Check it out!
• Shop at your local farmers' market. This will help support farmers in your area. Middlebury’s Winter market is this Saturday at American Flatbread in the Marbleworks.

I love to get packages in the mail. I think it stems back to when I was little and my grandparents would send us a little something extra just because. You’d see the postal truck out front and hear the doorbell and you knew that whatever he had wasn’t big enough to fit in the mailbox and could just be for you. That’s a great feeling. What I don’t like about getting packages, though, is the the excess packing material the usually accompanies it. Styrofoam casings and peanuts, bubble wrap, now they have little clear plastic balloons that are usually popped by the time the box gets to me. Useful, not so much. What to do with all that fluff fluff what-nots? You might not know that Styrofoam and bubble wrap are not recyclable. But, you could save them for future packaging projects (yes, foist them off on someone else) or just take them to one of the area businesses that accept them for reuse. The businesses that accept bubblewrap are : Bob Compton Pottery in Bristol and Ledge Haven Farm in Orwell. You can take your Styrofoam to Middlebury’s U.P.S. Store and those business who will accept both are Maple Landmark Woodcraft in Middlebury and Kennedy Brothers Marketplace in Vergennes. Tell ‘em Sarah at 92.1 WVTK sent you!