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Use loose tea more

Written by arianek on 5 December, 2008
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Tea bags create a lot of waste, so I want to start using loose tea more, especially at the office.

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Make and distribute biodiesel in my community.

Written by Jan Steinman on 27 December, 2007
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I have been experimenting with alternative liquid fuels for some time. I converted a step van to run on vegetable oil, and have been making my own biodiesel, collecting waste vegetable oil from five local restaurants.

But it's been a solitary affair. Now's the time to share! I plan to have an informal biodiesel filling station, where people can come fill up and leave a voluntary contribution.

Go on a "plastic free diet" for one year (June 07 to June 08)

Written by Orvieto on 11 May, 2007
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To refrain from purchasing or eating any food which comes wrapped in unnecessary plastic (i.e. I've defined unnecessary plastic as any single use plastic wrapping). I would like to start moving in leaps and bounds, rather than just making gradual changes to reduce enviromental impact.

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be garbage free

Written by Kate on 24 January, 2007
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i want to stop generating garbage. i know it is possible.

What took me so long?

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Written by wazaroff on 12 January, 2007
Commit to Composting
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I'm fairly green, I think. Try not to consume too much,we own a Prius, I mostly walk to work. But we have never composted before. I can't quite say why.

We were in Seattle over the holiday and they have mandatory recycling, which is amazing. They also have a city-wide yard and food waste pick-up program. This floored me.

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Small Business composting

Written by blackgold on 8 November, 2006
Make composting easy for everyone
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Hey everyone,

I am creating a business that will collect food waste from businesses that want to be more sustainable and stop dumping food waste into landfills.

I am looking for businesses (and people) interested on changing this so if anyone wants more information on how this would work contact BlackGold Food Waste & Compost Services at elmufino@yahoo.ca -

Treating food as garbage is one of the reasons we have to import food and create space to dump more garbage. Landfill usage promotes anaerobic decomposition of the material we put there. In the case of organic material, even food waste that is easily compostable takes years if not decades to decompose using valuable land space that could be used for truly unusable materials.

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