America Recycles Day! November 15, 2011

Yes! We have an Environmental Holiday IN the FALL!
It isn't all about Earth Day! It is about EVERY DAY!

Join a recycling event near you! Visit the America Recycles Day! and the  Earth911 !  websites to find out where you can go to recycle your waste!   Plug in your zip code and find the recycling center closest to your home or workplace.

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And don't forget these important cycles:

Pre-cycling--Buy no more than you need!

Free-cycling: Give away items instead of throwing them away. Post them on www.craigslist.com or www.freecycle.com !

Up-cycling: Make cool stuff out of materials you have. Prior to recycling them.  Like homes out of plastic bottles and tires!  FOR REAL!

PIGS in SPACE!

Photo: Super massive Black Hole/NASA

Ok............ I would much rather check out the Muppet Show than look into where our trash ends up. But, I believe that most of us (myself included) have no real clue, and in order to change things we NEED to KNOW. So I'm going to do a bit of research........

Looks like the little marble surrounded by an ocean of space is looking a bit overrun with TRASH. Estimates suggest that there is over 4 million pounds of the stuff floating around in the atmosphere. They call it space junk. In fact, it is hard to maneuver up there........astronauts have to fly around bits and pieces of rubbish.

We need to rethink the way we do things people. Come on!

If we keep fouling our nest....it is a LONG way to find another one.

THINK. DON'T BUY. REUSE. RE-CREATE. REPAIR.

And remember my mantra/motto when you are at the store...

"Ya' know, I don't really need that."

Breathe deeply and repeat until the urge to spend goes away...

"Ya' know, I don't really need that."