It’s incredible how much of our waste goes straight to landfill, taking hundreds of years to break down. Using just a few simple ideas, you can save money and massively reduce the amount of waste you send to landfill.

If you have some stuff that you want to get rid of, consider if your stuff can be reused without being thrown away.  If your stuff still has value, you can always sell your stuff on eBay, put a notice on the work message board, or just sell it at car boot sales or garage sales.  If you don’t want any money for your stuff, you can always give it away to charity shops or post it on a freecycle forum.  You can also pass on your unwanted items to your friends and family.

On the other hand, you can always buy 2nd hand where possible. You can look on freecycle for items or ask around with your friends and family to find out if they are looking to get rid of something you want.

Recycling your stuff is only one step you can take to reduce landfill waste.  You can also reduce your waste by considering what products you are buying and the packaging that they use. You can buy products that only use recyclable packaging such as glass, certain plastics, paper, card, etc. If you buy in bulk, you can typically save on packaging compared to lots of smaller items. If possible, you might be able to use your own containers to get re-fills for products, such as egg boxes.

Quite a few products have far too much packaging or have packaging that has long been non-recyclable, such as yoghurt pots, shampoo bottles and tetra packs (milk or juice cartons). If you feel particularly passionate about it, you can always write to product groups and encourage them to try harder with their packaging to make it more recyclable.

With some creative thinking an initiative, you can re-use packaging to increase the number of times it’s used before being discarded. For example, using plastic bottles to protect garden plants from slugs and snails. Perhaps using old CDs on a line of string to scare off birds from your vegetable patch. Using old glass jars or plastic containers as food storers or for other bits and pieces around the house. You can even use cleaned out yoghurt pots as plant pots for seedlings.

Reducing waste isn’t just about recycling stuff, it’s about re-use too!

This post was written by Daniel Harrison, who loves green gadgets and has his own blog where you can receive more daily eco tips just like this one.

Are you a parent who is either eco-friendly or trying to learn more about the environment while at the same time want to teach your kids about the importance of protecting the environment? You might be interested in a book written by Jacquie Wines and Sarah Horne then…

“You Can Save the Planet: 50 Ways You Can Make A Difference” is booked aimed at kids when it comes to protecting the environment. Inside of this book you will find 50 different ways for protecting the environment, such as what to do with kitchen leftovers, how to save water around your house, how to organize recycling in your home, what global warming really is, etc. As an added bonus this book is printed on recycled paper. This book is meant for ages 9 and up.

This is a great book when both you and your kids are trying to learn about different ways of protecting the environment, or even if you are looking to teach your kids about the importance of protecting the environment. A great idea would be to sit down each night whenever there is time and read this book with your child/children together. Not only will all of you be learning how to be eco-friendly but all of you will also be spending quality time together.

If you are interested in purchasing this book you can visit Barnes and Noble. Simply enter “You Can Save the Planet” in their search box as soon as you open their webpage and it should be the first book that pops up, if not the first one. Also, currently this book is only $4.99 on Barnes and Noble’s website, $4.49 if you have a membership with them.

Looking for an inexpensive way to fight global warming? Better yet, how about a way that won’t cost a dime? It is not only simple but Care2 has made it something easy that anyone can do. Every day we use our computers we burn an unbelievable amount of energy. Thanks to Care2 this is a way that we can help give back to the environment. Want to find out how? Continue reading…

Care2 introduces their new toolbar for your web browsers. For every day that their toolbar is used Care2 will make a donation to save 25 square foot of the Amazon Rainforest. Best of all their toolbar uses Google’s search engine, so for those of you who already use Google and or Google’s toolbar this is an extra added bonus for using Care2’s toolbar.

Personally speaking, I love the Care2 toolbar and use it every day. It comes in handy being able to search google without having to go to their homepage, and it is also an extra added bonus being able to have quick access to Care2 petitions straight from their toolbar.

For all of those spray starch happy people out there comes an eco-friendly spray starch. Earth Friendly Products puts out a product called All Natural Spray Starch. Its made with water, cotton blossom oils, and corn starch.

Earth Friendly Products aren’t available everywhere, however they can be found in some places, but the question is where are they available at?

The answer is all too simple at the very least. Earth Friendly Products can easily be found online at places such as drugstore.com and vitacost.com. If you know of a store that sells this line of products, whether it be a local store or an online store please don’t hesitate to leave a comment.

The price varies as to how much Earth Friendly Products All Natural Spray Starch can cost. The average price that I have seen it cost online is anywhere between two dollars and some change and three dollars and some change.

Have the want and even the need to put something back into the environment? A great way to do this is by having trees planted in this world. One company who is completely dedicated, not to mention extremely friendly, to seeing trees take root in this world is Plant a Tree USA. Both indivuduals as well as companies can go through Plant a Tree USA. The question is, though, what makes Plant a Tree USA so different from any other company in the same field?

While most tree planting companies are all wonderful there is one unique thing about Plant a Tree USA. What makes them so unique is that a person can view the growth of their tree(s). This is a great option for a company, big or small, to offer their customers. It is extremely beneficial to green influenced companies. While this is a great option for companies it is also a great option as a gift for someone, donating a tree or more in someone’s name. It can make quite a beautiful gift and hold special meaning in it for a person. In order to purchase tree planting(s) visit Plant a Tree USA’s website. Also, while you’re there have a look at their carbon calculator. Sometimes the results can be quite surprising.