The Environmental Four Rs for the Home: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rebuy Page: 3
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Line wastebaskets with grocery bags.
* Buy products with less packaging or buy packag-
ing that can be reused or recycled; buy bulk
quantities if you know you will use it all.
Packaging makes up one-third of the average
household's garbage and accounts for
approximately 13 percent of your grocery dollar.
* Select rechargeable batteries, refillable ink pens,
and cloth dish towels and napkins.
Shopping: buy recycled and demand
recyclable materials
* Glass, steel, and aluminum bottles, jars, or cans
have 20 percent or more recycled content.
* Paperboard boxes (such as cereal and shoe
boxes) are made from almost 100 percent
recycled materials.
* Most newspapers in Texas are printed on
recycled-content newsprint. Contact your news-paper or TNRCC at 512/239-3100 to
learn how much recycled material is used in
your newspaper.
Recycling your daily newspaper subscription
for a year provides as much pulp
for paper manufacturing as two-
thirds of an acre of commercial
forest and saves about 1/2 cubic
yard of landfill space.
* Avoid nonrecyclable items like foam containers,
waxed milk and juice cartons, and single-serving
juice boxes.
Gardening
* Don't bag it! Leave your grass clippings on
the lawn.
* Use leaves or wood chips for mulch around trees
and shrubs and in gardens.
* Compost food scraps, leaves, and other
organic materials.Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rebuy
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Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. The Environmental Four Rs for the Home: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rebuy, pamphlet, January 2000; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1507733/m1/3/?q=green+energy: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.