Go Green tips for November 19th

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, November 19th:

• Planning on doing some shopping for festive wear to impress the boss with at this year’s holiday party? Remember to buy washable instead of dry clean only! You’ll save money and cut down on toxic chemical use!
• What’s for dinner tonight? Why not go meatless once a week? You’ll save money and encourage your family to eat more and different vegetables!

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! This is the Go Green Ride at Five on 92.1 WVTK!