3 reasons why to go green?

Question

3 reasons and examples supporting maybe

Answer 1

To save money - you can use your own compost in the garden, compact florescent bulbs save electricity and $, Energy Star appliances save money and can pay for themselves in savings.

To reduce wastefulness so the landfills and dumps don't get overfilled.

To help the environment, animals, and people living on this planet. The more pollution and poisons we are around, the greater chance of getting sick, cancer, other diseases.

Answer 2

to save money and save eltircity and to help the enviroment

Answer 3

I have two but these are good enough that anyone I feel anyone with a slight concern about something other then themselves could make an effort to try and make better choices. Better choices are not always there, or easy to make, but there are a lot of simple choices people can make also and a little is better then nothing.

1. Americans have a tendacy to waste. Many products have exsesive packaging, and are bulked up to make the consumer feel they are getting more for their money. However green products cut back on a lot of waste in a lot of ways.  Most green companies work hard to use the most enviromental choices with their products. For example concentrated laundry soap, over 400 million gallons of water are used to water down laundry detergent every year? Do we really need all that when farmers cannot even water their crops?

You can buy a green cleaning agent, concentrated all purpose cleaner, you mix with wayer in your spray bottle and the concentrate in the size of a AA battery, or you can buy a whole new bottle of prewatered down cleaner every time, all in another plastic bottle.

By choosing to do so you are wasting the plastic for each new bottle, and the gas to ship all those bottles to the store.

Another example is stonyfield farm yogurts, they do not use recyclable materials but their plastic is made very thin, much more so then other yogurt companies. This makes shipping cheaper and more effiecent saving feul and money because they are lighter. It also makes them take up less space in landfills. You can also buy garbage bags made of recycled plastic. Recycled plastic bottles cannot be returned to bottle form, it downgrades. Plastic is made out of the same crude oil they use to make gasoline, the same oil that prices are sky high on, if it is going to the garbage anyways why not use plastic bags made out of recycled materials?

2. It produces less chemicals. This is good for the enviroment and workers. For example in many 3rd world countries children are farmers, very few farmers have the correct training and equipment to apply them safely. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that most pesticicde poisioning cases are farmers. By buying organic products not only are these chimicals not being placed on the earth they are not hurting anyone elses health.

Another example is paper, paper products are bleached. The bleaching in the paper creating process is one of the worst, releasing serious chemicals in the enviroment and exposing workers to it. Products such as napkins, cupcake cups, and coffee filters can be bought natural brown instead of bleached. There is no real need for these products to be bleached, it again is just waste, an unessecary step.

Answer 4

to save money

to be healthy

to go on living in a reasonable climate

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Answer 5

1) Becuase one person does make a difference

2) Becuase after all the world has given us, shouldn't we give a little back?

3) Because future generations will really appreciate that they still have a chance to enjoy the earth.

4)  BONUS:  Because with all the information available out there, telling us day in and day out what we have done and are doing to this planet and how such small changes in our daily lives could literally save the world,  wouldn't you feel kinda stupid not too?