Maybe It's Time I Stick to My Blog Name? 3 R'S!

So my blog's name is "Smiles make the world go round," and my url is "smileandsavetheworld" So I think I might rename my title to fit my url...

Anyway, I was browsing around my friends blogs and found a blog entry that seemed of interest of me. The three R's. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! And then I continued to read it to find it didn't have any substance. Booo...

So maybe I should start posting about saving the world, as that's what my blog was meant to be...ahahah...
-__- oppsie.

Anyway. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. It's listed it the order that you follow it. And in the order of importance as well.

REDUCE: Buy your things without the packaging. Don't pull out a fresh new piece of paper to write down "Call Sally." Reduce your output. And I suppose reducing your input would help too. Buying something you'll surely trash in a week will waste the materials used to make the object and the materials used in the packaging.

REUSE: Ooohhh crrapp.. You just bought something off the internet and it came in bubble wrap, styrafoam, plastic bags, and a whole lot of other crap they didn't need to stuff in the extra thick cardboard box covered in tape. Oops? Weell, bubble wrap... it's just kinda cool, so I'm not going to bash that. You can reuse it as entertainment instead of watching TV? Saves energy... Styrafoam. Only some places recycle it. Most likely, where you live, you can't recycle it. So make something out of it. Use it as packaging again, carve a toy out of it for your children (or yourself). Cut it up and use it as stuffing? The possibililties are ENDLESS.

How about cardboard? that's definately more versatile. You can use it as a container, cut it up for a poster, a bookmark...ANYTHING.

A HUGE thing is to use both sides of paper before disposing it. I put together an accordian binder of paper I could reuse, and the seams of it is literally ripping apart because it's so full. Imagine if I were to use that amount of paper...except using a fresh blank piece. Fail.

And a side note, see how creative you are. I read this experiment in a book for school. Pull out a piece of paper that you were about to needlessly dispose of and write this down in the blank part of the paper. :)

1.) How many uses can you think of for a brick?
2.) How many uses can you think of for a blanket?

I'll put my answers in a seperate blog.

RECYCLE: Now, you may ask, why the fudge is this the least important? She freaks if she sees recycle-ables in the trash! Well, despite my hyped-up-ness about recycling, in all reality, it DOES use up energy. Of course, less energy that throwing it away, but still. Besides, recycling still goes under your outputs.

But back to the point. Recycling can save SO MUCH energy. I won't bother putting numbers on this because you can simply google it. How much energy can you save by recycling a can?

ANYWAY. Keep your eyes peeled for more stuff about saving the world...Of course, you could just not read the post at all...Less time on the computer reading my lecture about saving the world means less energy being used by your computer. :P

Have an awesome greenerific day!

AND SMILE!