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Businesses that recycle help the environment I recently visited a hotel group that was environmentally friendly. I will always support them so let me ask you, are  you planning a trip?  Whether it is a trip for business or pleasure; you have options and with just a little research you can find a hotel that is environmentally friendly!  There are “Green” Hotels in which the hotel does all it can in order to recycle, reuse and reduce. 
Some of the ways hotels are becoming environmentally friendly are by letting guests know that they will only clean the room upon request; that cuts down on the amount of laundry that needs to be washed, electricity that needs to be used to vacuum and the man power itself, that it  needs in order to accommodate for daily cleaning. 
Hotels can also request that you re-use your towels rather than having them laundered every day. 

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There are so many ways that we can choose to stay environmentally contentious even when we travel that there really is no excuse. All you have to do is having developed a habit for recycling. Here are a few ideas for families that are traveling and still want to stay in their recycle-conscious state of mind.   Before you even leave your home there are ways that you can help save energy and waste, remember recycling is to save the earths resources and energy.  Turn your thermostats down on your home and your hot water heater.  Some heaters have a “Vacation” setting right on them that can be used to set the temperature when no one will be around to need the heat.  Just keep in mind the plants that are left behind and as long as they will not be killed off due to the temperature change, you’re set.  Read the rest of this entry »

When you think of Computer or Monitor recycling do you sigh and think that you just don’t have the time or energy to do it? Do you think that recycling is something that has to be hard; otherwise if it’s not hard, then it doesn’t count? I’m embarrassed to say that some people still don’t recycle their electronics waste. Somehow they justified what ever reasons they have for not recycling.  I’m here to tell you that recycling your monitor, Television or PC isn’t something difficult or something you have to go out of your way to participate in and when it’s easy more people will participate. Did you know that you can participate in recycling by just changing some habits such as not leaving lights on when you leave a room? Recycling means saving the earths resources and energy. I seem to be someone who, when doing any kind of work, whether it’s writing or eating (this is a man thing), I need a lot of light around to do it.  The first two ways I found to conserve energy and count myself in as a “recycler” was to turn off lights as I left a room.  Sounds easy, right?  Well, that’s because it is easy.  The only thing I had to do was remind myself that I was no longer going to waste energy by leaving lights on in a room that no one was occupying. Mind you, I’ve had years of doing things the way I’d been doing them and the change didn’t happen overnight, but it did happen.  There hasn’t been a doorway I’ve walked through in the past 6 months or so that I haven’t given a quick inventory before passing through the threshold and thinking, “Did I leave any lights on?”  The great thing is, the times that I have left a light on, I’m given the final opportunity to stop and turn around and turn off the lights before leaving the room for good.  Is this a difficult change?  Like I said, it didn’t happen as soon as I thought about my part in the effort to recycle, but it is something I have allowed myself to consider on a daily basis. The other way I have found to easily adhere to this recycling thing is that I changed my light bulbs.  Yup, that simple act of replacing a burned-out bulb with one of the new, energy saving kind has really been a big help.  The newer bulbs use up to 75% less energy when lighting a room and they will last up to ten times longer, too.  How can you beat that?  And there wasn’t any effort on my part; all I did was replace the bulb with the new and improved bulb and have made quite the impact on my electric bill.   

The good news is this; there are easy ways to stay on track with recycling, and you don’t have to look very far to find them.

With the way technology is out-doing themselves year after year with newer, better, bigger and improved products for computer users, you can just imagine the amount of waste that is generated in Oregon alone when consumers upgrade along with the process.  There are no slowing down on technology. Each household may have up to four computers, with one or two computers being upgraded each year.  Now add to that computers and monitors from even a small business, the numbers add up very quickly.  Read the rest of this entry »