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EARTHDAY 2024
15 Simple Choices You Make Today to Reduce Carbon Footprint-Earth Day
Save the planet easily!
Helping to reduce the world’s carbon footprint seems like an impossible task, but here are 15 easy choices you can do today in your home to help the planet. Many of these choices only have to be made once to reap the rewards over and over. You don’t have to overhaul everything you use today, but by making small purchase decisions, you can make a big difference!
1. Choose bar soaps. Not only can you use bar soap for hands and body, there are now bar shampoos. There are several brands of bar shampoo on the market, so don’t get discouraged if you don’t like the first one you try. I found they are better on my hair and are long lasting, one bar lasted easily 6 months and saved two plastic bottles.
You can also purchase bar dish soap. I tried one brand which wasn’t so great, but there are other brands, so keep trying if you aren’t successful. If nothing else, purchase the large sized containers of products and refill the smaller ones. It does help to reduce the amount of plastic bottles you will use over the course of a year.
2. Choose recyclable and plant based pet waste bags. Do you really think about how many pet bags you go through in a week? At a minimum, it would…
