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1. Compost kitchen scraps and yard waste.

2. Maintain and repair durable products.

3. Let your apartment-dwelling friends use your composter.

4. Compost the coffee grounds and tea bags from work; take them home if you don't have a composter at work.

5. Take your own shopping bag to the grocery store.

6. Write school or business notes on the back of scrap paper.

7. Choose cloth diapers over disposable.

8. Purchase reusable razors instead of disposables.

9. Go to garage sales for all your household needs, rather than buying things new.

10. Use a thermos in your lunch rather than drinking boxes or bop bottles.

11. Take a lunch box instead of bags. Also, take the container to the sandwich shop and have them put in your sandwich straight into the box.

12. Recycle your fine paper at the office and at home.

13. When buying fruits and vegetable at the grocery store, instead of those little plastic bags, bring one bag to put them all in. Separate them at the check-out counter.

14. Use garbage can instead of garbage bags. If you are composting your wet garbage, this needn't be a problem.

15. Take your own mug to the coffee shop.

16. Draft letters and reports directly onto the computer; skip the paper step.

17. Photocopy on both sides of the paper.

18. Keep some scrap paper by your printer to print out draft copies.

19. Shop at the bulk food store and bring your own plastic containers and bags.

20. Take the egg cartons back to the farmer - some local stores take them too.

21. Repair appliances rather than buying new ones. Check your Yellow Pages for repairs.

22. Use plastic shopping bags as kitchen catchers.

23. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables; they are less often pre-packaged in the grocery store.

24. Wrap gifts in newspaper, magazines (ads are great - very colourful) or old posters; not expensive wrapping paper.

25. Use cloth napkins, not paper ones; it's cheaper and more elegant. Add a little class to your life.

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