Recycling

When you think of recycling do you sigh and think that you just don’t have the time or energy to do it?  Do you see visions of hundreds of thousands of empty plastic bottles in some far-away factory getting ready to be melted down?  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 at one time, these were the thoughts that ran through my head and they justified my reasons for not recycling.  I’m here to tell you that I was mistaken; recycling isn’t something difficult, or something you have to go out of your way to participate in and when it’s easy, well, it’s just easy; and it still counts toward recycling.

Here are some of the easy ways I have found to recycle:

I have a terrible habit of leaving lights on when I leave a room.  I seem to be someone who, when doing any kind of work, whether it’s writing or stripping wallpaper, 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. [...]