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Make A Difference At the Store

 
Practice wise waste management.
  • Recycle aluminum cans, glass bottles, plastic, cardboard, and newspapers. Recycling can reduce your home's carbon dioxide emissions by 850 pounds per year.
  • Buy food and other products with reusable or recyclable packaging, or reduced packaging, to save the energy required to manufacture new containers. This simple action could reduce your emissions by 230 pounds a year.
  • Buy products made of recycled content, such as recycled paper for your computer printer.
For more information on the relationship between climate change and waste, visit EPA's Climate Change and Waste website.
 
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