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Green Tips
Maintain your central air conditioner by cleaning the outside compressor with a garden hose. (Be sure to shut off power at the fuse or breaker first). Keep plants at least one foot away from unit for adequate airflow.
Reflective window film can help reduce heat gain during the summer, and it will keep furniture and carpets from fading.
Set the water heater temperature at 120-degrees, about halfway between low and medium. This will help save energy and prevent scalding while keeping unhealthy bacteria from growing.
Plant during the spring or fall when the watering requirements are lower.
Divide your watering cycle into shorter periods to reduce runoff and allow for better absorption every time you water.
Adjust your lawn mower to a higher setting. Longer grass shades root systems and holds soil moisture better than a closely clipped lawn.
Replace an incandescent outdoor light or high-intensity floodlight with a high-pressure sodium fixture. The bulbs will last longer, use less energy, and handle temperature extremes better.
Install a low-flow showerhead. They're inexpensive, easy to install, and can save your family more than 500-gallons a week.
Don't buy recreational water toys that require a constant flow of water.
Use a hose nozzle and turn off the water while you wash your car and save more than 100-gallons.
Unplug any electrical device that's not being used. Many appliances, especially computers, televisions and VCRs draw power even when turned off.
Place humidifiers and dehumidifiers away from walls and bulky furniture. These appliances work best when air circulates freely around them.Check your sprinkler system frequently and adjust sprinklers so only your lawn is watered and not the house, sidewalk, or street.
Minimize evaporation by watering during the early morning hours, when temperatures are cooler and winds are lighter.
Install a programmable thermostat. If you use it to set back the temperature by 10-degrees for eight hours every night, you'll lower your heating bills by 10-percent. A $50 digital thermostat can pay for itself in energy savings in less than a year.Plug the bathtub before turning the water on, then adjust the temperature as the tub fills up.
Use ceiling fans to help circulate air throughout the house, and make sure your attic is properly ventilated. A ceiling fan should run clockwise during the summer, and counter-clockwise during the winter.
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Environmental Facts
A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days
Making new aluminum cans from used cans takes 95 percent less energy. 20 recycled cans can be made with the energy needed to produce one can using virgin ore.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to keep your television for three hours.
The average employee consumes 2.5 beverages a day while at work. Are you recycling at work?
The EPA estimates that 75 percent of what Americans throw in the trash could actually be recycled.
The national recycling rate of 30 percent saves the equivalent of more than five billion gallons of gasoline.
This reduces dependence on foreign oil by 114 million barrels.
The aluminum can is 100 percent recyclable and can be used to make new beverage cans indefinitely.
Recycling 35 percent of our trash reduces emissions equivalent to taking 36 million cars off the road.
Every Sunday 500,000 trees could be saved if everyone recycled their newspapers.
By 2012, the paper industry’s goal is to recover 55 percent of all the paper Americans consume for recycling. This is approximately 55 million tons of paper.
More than 37 percent of the fiber used to make new paper products in the US comes from recycled sources.
86 percent (approximately 254 million) of Americans have access to curbside or drop-off paper recycling programs.In 2006, Americans drank about 167 bottles of water each. Sadly, only 38 bottles per person were recycled or 23%. That leaves 38 billion water bottles in landfills
Plastic bottles go to landfills and take 700 years before they start to decompose.
Plastic bottles can be recycled into many items.
This includes rugs, swimming goggles, dog bowls, back packs, skateboard wheels, and ski jackets.
Glass containers are 100 % recyclable.
Recovered glass is used as the majority ingredient in new glass containers
Glass containers produced today are 40% lighter than when they were produced 20 years agoThis makes them much easier to recycle
Cigarette filters are not biodegradable. They are made of plastic, not paper and cotton.
Cigarette litter lingers in our environment up to 25 years.
Each year, Americans produce enough plastic foam cups to circle the earth more than 400 times. Plastic foam can stay in the environment for up to 500 years.
Arkansans use more than 18 million pounds of paper a year. For every ton of paper that is recycled, 17 trees are saved making our air cleaner and preserving habitat.
In this decade, Americans will throw away more than 11 million tons of glass bottles and jars. There are as many as 800 glass bottles along each mile of rural road in Arkansas. Glass bottles stay in the environment for up to 1,000 years .Enough aluminum is thrown away every three months to rebuild every commercial airplane in America
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