Go Green tips for June 14th

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 Monday, June 14th:

• If you’re a little proactive, you can recycle your water! Make sure you keep your soap organic and you can re-use your dish water or put a bucket in the shower with you to use in your garden. Every drop counts, that’s for sure!
• You’re switching to warm weather clothes and finding that some of them don’t fit the kids, anymore! At my house, right now, the pile of kids clothes to be donated is growing. We’ll be heading out to make a donation within the next couple of weeks. Clean out those drawers and join me, won’t you?

I’m always going on and on about reuseable shopping bags, it’s an addiction, I admit. I mean, I must own over 30 of them by now. That’s only because I forget to bring some of them along with me for the quick grocery stops and then I buy more, it’s a vicious cycle. Anyway, did you know that many cities and even some countries, are phasing out or even taxing plastic bags. Ireland introduced its plastic bag tax in 2002, charging 15 Euro cents or 22 U.S. cents on each bag. And in 2007, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to introduce a plastic-bag ban, and now Seattle is considering following suit. It’s looking like going plastic will begin to get expensive. So, you then go for paper if you forget your shopping bags, but it’s not necessarily the better choice. Paper bags require more energy to manufacture and release more greenhouse gases when degrading than plastic bags. Truly though, what bag we choose is only a small part of the problem. Focusing on what goes into the bag should perhaps be a bigger issue. Buying only what’s necessary, finding ways to reuse our possessions and taking the time to mend them for a longer life should really be the priority. Bags shmags, it’s all about what you fill them with and what ends up in the landfills! Green is all you need on the Go Green Ride At Five at 92.1 WVTK!