As members of our San Francisco community, we at Sparkling Clean Agency are committed to reducing waste consumption by recycling everything we can and by buying office supplies made from recycled materials.
Recycling is one means of ensuring that the items we have finished using get returned to the resource pool, where they are either turned into something else or cleaned for reuse. Recycling had many benefits, including:
- It reduces the amount of material that goes into landfills
- It helps to conserve raw materials
- It helps to reduce the consumption of energy – manufactures would consume more to create new products from scratch.
- It can lessen the pollution involved with waste disposal
- It helps to conserve our natural resources by reducing the consumption of raw materials.
Not everyone feels motivated to recycle and sometime it can seem like a complex undertaking. But once you understand the benefits and learn how to recycle, you’ll realize it is not that hard and it soon becomes a habit.
How to remember to take your reusable shopping bag with you to the store
You probably know what a waste of resources most plastic bags are. You may even have some reusable bags of your own. But are they going with you to the store? Or you still using plastic bags? Reusable bags are great for groceries, but they can also be used when you buy clothing, items from the drugstore, and many other things.
Ways to remember to take your reusable bags with you:
- Get informed and remind yourself why you want to do your part in reducing the waste that goes to our landfills.
- Put your bags where you will see and use them. This is the key to helping you remember them.
- Write to the top of your list “take the bag.”
- Tell your kids that is important to take their own bags. If you have kids and you take them shopping with you, explain why you want to take back bags, and put them in charge of helping you remember to take them in.
As soon you empty your bags, put the bags back wherever you normally store them, so that they’re ready to go with you on your next trip to the store.