Go Green tips for May 20th

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, May 20th:

• Paper production consumes energy and thrown away sheets clog landfills. How much do you use in the process of one day? What steps can you make to use less?
• Wonder what you can recycle and what you can’t? Go to addison county recycles dot org to have all your recycling questions answered!
• Don’t forget tomorrow is Bike to Work day! Go home tonight and pump those tires, shine that helmet and get ready to hit the road tomorrow. I mean that figuratively, by the way!

Let me set this up for you and let’s see how familiar it sounds. There you stand in the check out aisle at Hannaford. In your basket is your unbagged bunch of bananas, your environmentally friendly household cleaner, some paper products made from recycled materials and several not-to-overly-packaged items. Just as you begin to pat yourself on the back—it hits you: your shopping bags, oh no! Still in the closet or garage at home, gathering dust and doing you absolutely no good. How can I describe it so well? Been there, and done just that! So, you sigh, and lug home your loot in bags of paper or plastic and promise yourself you’ll do better next time. Instead of beating yourself up, why not try to work out a system to help you remember your bags? You could post stylish green signs in strategic places, like by your frontdoor, or on your fridge so you can grab the bags and put them by the front door as you’re compiling the grocery list. Have your artistic child design a door knob hanger for you. You know, what made me think of this was something that happened yesterday. I was in line behind a woman who found herself in a similar situation of no bag. She took off her raincoat and wrapped her few groceries in it. Now that’s green dedication! It’s the Go Green Ride at Five on 92.1 WVTK.