This is just a quick note on household paths to cutting waste that, with work by you, can spread to neighbors and friends and, ultimately, up the consumption chain to retailers and manufacturers of stuff we need.
Andy, oh my golly, yes! My wife and I still buy and use bar soap, but it seems like decades since I've been anywhere, to anybody's house, where there is a bar of soap by the sink.
Another conservation practice of ours is that we use a clothesline to dry our clothes. There are about 100 million clothes dryers in the U.S., each one churning out about a ton of CO2 every year. Much of the wear that our shirts, pants, and scarves comes from the tumbling and heat in a dryer. Our clothes last a long time, and drying clothes on line gives them that wonderful fresh aroma.
Yes, indeed. My wonderful spouse - a longtime environmental education professional - has made sure we use the clothesline as much as Maine weather allows.
Andy, oh my golly, yes! My wife and I still buy and use bar soap, but it seems like decades since I've been anywhere, to anybody's house, where there is a bar of soap by the sink.
Another conservation practice of ours is that we use a clothesline to dry our clothes. There are about 100 million clothes dryers in the U.S., each one churning out about a ton of CO2 every year. Much of the wear that our shirts, pants, and scarves comes from the tumbling and heat in a dryer. Our clothes last a long time, and drying clothes on line gives them that wonderful fresh aroma.
Yes, indeed. My wonderful spouse - a longtime environmental education professional - has made sure we use the clothesline as much as Maine weather allows.