Do you recycle? If so, what? Do you use milkjugs as watering cans?

Do you compost? How do you do it without stinking up the house / backyard?

Do you conserve? What kind of things are you doing to cutback? Using the clothesline instead of the dryer?

I'm curious to know how others are helping the environment. This is one of those things that I'd like to do more of, but I'm not sure where to start.

Question:
Are you helping the environment?

Choices:
YES! A lot! My car runs on biodiesel, I have solar panels, and we separate and recycle paper, plastic, and aluminum.
SORT OF... I compost and try to buy products with the least amount of packaging. I've been known to thow a soda can in the recycle bin at work.
When it is convenient.... I don't want anyone calling me a tree hugger!
NO! It takes too much time, costs too much money, and I'll be dead when it matters anyway.
I don't now, but I would if I had more informations on ways to do it.

 

Its fairly easy to compost without stinking up all creation. First you need a container that is large, I have used old car tires that were stacked atop each other. Put in all your vegetable scraps that are raw, no cooked food and no meat scraps. Also use newspaper,leaves, and dirt. There is always less smell if you add fresh dirt on a regular basis. Don't forget to stir everything together on a biweekly basis. Add water in really dry periods.This help to decompose. If you use tires start with two and as you fill them up and the materials compost you can add more tires one at a time as needed. This makes the best flower dirt and it really grows a vegetable garden. It doesn't hurt to add dry cow or horse or chicken manure while it is composting.As for recycling yes we do. We recycle aluminum, scrap metal. We have cows, rabbits,chickens and use all this manure on our garden and flower beds.We even get the chips that the utility company has from all the trees that are being cut back along the roadside. It takes a couple years for this to rot but it is well worth it.The only thing with composting is to be considerate of your neighbors if you live near people I live in the country and with our 75 cows no one knows if they are smelling the pasture or compost.

Dont want to seem ignorant but how does composting help the environment? If you just drop your newspaper in the recycle bin you have helped the same amount right? I maybe wrong.....I live in a neighborhood so I cant participate but I would like it for my flower beds.

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