Moms Talk Q&A
Moms Council: What Green Activities Does Your Family Participate In?
Check out our latest "Moms Talk Q&A" column for advice offered by the Stoneham Patch Moms Council on ways to cut costs and save the environment through "green" practices.
Going green. What are you doing to teach your family about green living and protecting the environment? From Melisa Thorne: Have you ever noticed how much trash a family accumulates in one week? A few years ago, on our weekly trash day when my husband was hauling the trash to the curb, I was a little shocked to see that we had five big barrels full of trash. So the following week I paid better attention to things I was throwing out. Plastic water bottles and paper cups from popular coffee places were prevalent in my trash. This got me to think more about the resources that I use and got me to embrace a 'greener' lifestyle. I no longer buy bottled water. I drink filtered tap water and drink from a reusable container. And as hard as it was …
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