Tell Us Your Green Tips and Win Free Audios!

By bbcaadmin @ 12:46 PM :: 940 Views :: 8 Comments ::

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BBCAA IS GOING GREEN

Here at BBCAA, we've embarked on several practices to be more environmentally friendly, including using more recycled material in our packaging and creating less paper waste via digital catalogs and online ordering. (Click here to learn more about Listen Green.)

Now we want to hear your best tips on how to go green. Submit your favorite environmentally friendly suggestions here in the comments section, and every week this month, we'll choose our favorites to win free audiobooks!

Comments

By Dorothy Distefano @ Friday, May 14, 2010 7:54 AM

Recycle - no matter what people say. I don't really mind it when my family calls me a tree-hugger. They're right. I want to hug the trees. It isn't uncommon to find me pulling recyclables out of the trash, pointing them out to my husband and kids and then putting them in the recycle bin.

The best tip for going green is to not be afraid of being different. Go ahead and pull the plastic cups out of the trash at your friend's party and put them in a separate bag for recycling. For heaven's sake, that isn't embarrassing! It's responsible. Who knows? Maybe they'll follow your lead...

By Kate @ Friday, May 14, 2010 8:57 AM

My tip is using a travel mug.
I brew my morning coffee at home and carry it in my 16 oz coffee travel mug. Over the course of a year, my travel mug saves 250 trips to Starbucks, and 250 paper cups, lids, and sleeves. And this is just the initial green effect. With my cup in hand in the morning, it is now available for use for the remainder of the day, carring other on-the-go drinks like tap water, fountain drinks, and coffee brewed at the office.
I feel good about using my travel mug. It is my daily effort to keep it green.

By Ana @ Friday, May 14, 2010 10:55 AM

Besides recycling everything, separating each material (plastics, cans, papers, tetrapaks, etc, etc) and getting them on a recycle center near home, I also use a medium tank in the shower so that I may recycle water as well. This way I flush the toilet, or I use it to water the garden, also recycle the seeds, and all vegetables left-overs, making compounds. In this matter I have now more than fifteen trees, small and big, to beautify my terrace, and that's only for I live in an apartment...or I would have a organic farm by now!

By tara @ Monday, May 17, 2010 1:47 PM

I try to use cloth shopping bags instead of plastic at the grocery store.

By Kate @ Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:27 AM

Recycle batteries.
I can't bear the thought of putting a battery in the trash pail. So, I collect batteries at home and at work and recycle them.
Check out your town's web site for collection policies or purchase battery recycling boxes/containers and service through private recycling centers like iRecycle at www.batteryrecycling.com
I love recycling batteries. :)

By Amanda @ Thursday, June 03, 2010 10:15 AM

My husband and try to do what we can. We have a separate trash can in the kitchen for cans/bottles/plastic...but the big thing I noticed is paper. Once I got into the habit of recycling paper (newspaper, junk mail, envelopes, boxes, etc) I was amazed at how little our actual trash was. Except for the boxes that are covered in a plastic sheen, most paper products are recyclable.

By Joseph O'Connor @ Tuesday, June 22, 2010 1:56 PM

I think one of the best ways to become more green is to go to any drugstore, supermarket or big box retailer and pick up a half dozen or so steel or aluminum water bottles and stop buying the dreaded plastic water bottle. Most urban and suburban water supplies are safe for drinking water, so keep refilling your reusable "canteens" and watch your recycling bucket dwindle down to mostly glass bottles and aluminum cans - less plastic - less dependence on oil!

By juicy tracksuit @ Saturday, July 17, 2010 3:56 AM

In my opinion, Using materials that from NATURE to the greatest extent , that means reducing chemical pollution like plastic!

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