Green Options » biodegradable materials http://greenoptions.com/tag/biodegradable-materials Posts tagged 'biodegradable materials' Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:43:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Want to Curb Global Warming? Start Recycling and Composting http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/06/want-to-curb-global-warming-start-recycling-and-composting/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/06/want-to-curb-global-warming-start-recycling-and-composting/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:43:58 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/06/want-to-curb-global-warming-start-recycling-and-composting/ A garbage dump. (Image credit: Marcello Casal Jr./Agência Brasil at Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons license.)Looking for ways beyond changing lightbulbs and taking the train to help reduce your carbon footprint? Turns out we all could make a big difference in greenhouse gas emissions by not throwing out so much trash and composting our food waste.

That’s the message from “Stop Trashing the Climate,” a report prepared by The Institute for Local Self-Reliance, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) and Eco-Cycle, a non-profit recycler. The study finds that waste prevention and increased recycling and composting could reduce as many greenhouse gas emissions as are produced by 21 percent of the U.S.’s 417 coal-fired power plants.

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