How to get GREEN?

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Now, i dont mean, money... i mean like contributing to our earth... NO, im NOT a "tree hugger" or whatever you'd like to call that. but all i want to know is what things are recycable, and what i can do when Earth day comes.

(please dont say plant a tree, cause i dont think i'll be able to do that.)

Answer 1

Environmentally friendly paint.

Answer 2

Just put a GO GREEN bumper sticker on your SUV, because we are still in the Awareness Creation phase.

Answer 3

Recycle paper, glass, plastics at home

Recycle at work and school

Replace light bulbs with new CFL bulbs

Use reusable bags when you go grocery shopping

Combine your trips so that you drive less

Walk or bicycle instead of drive when you can

Lower the thermostat in the winter

Raise the thermostat in the summer

Avoid bottled water - its just filtered tap water transported over long distances

Clean the air filter on your furnace

Buy organics and/or shop at your local farmers market

Get informed

Vote for leaders who will make sound environmental policies

Change your attitude to use less stuff and consider what's good for the common good.

Oh yeah, go plant a tree :-)

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1. By eating fish that are caught in an environmentally responsible manner, you can help keep the marine ecosystem healthy, without compromising freshness and taste. Find out which fish are best and worst to choose.

2. When you're next in the market for a car, choose the one in your class with the highest fuel efficiency rating. You'll save money each time you fill up.

3. Check your tires once a month, since properly inflating your tires improves gas mileage. According to DOE, underinflated tires waste more than two million gallons of gasoline a day. And they're also a safety hazard.

4. Using fluorescent lights can be a major factor in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, a new compact fluorescent bulb uses 75% less energy than a standard incandescent and lasts about 10 times as long.

5. You prevent waste and save money whenever you reduce your purchases of disposable and overpackaged items or reuse more of what you already have. It's easy!

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Wow - where to start. Every day should be Earth day. If you want a way to celebrate, how about a picnic somewhere with low-impact foods - stuff locally grown is often best. Walk to the site. When you are done, have those with you do a "leave it cleaner than we found it" activity, cleaning up things you didn't get dirty at the site.

You can get greener in almost every aspect of your life, every day. My family lives simply, and we do not miss the complications. I told a young woman who asked a similar questions that by living frugally, I've been able to save money, live "green," and live well.

She said, "Well, living frugally is no fun." She is so wrong! I have a wonderful full life, and because I haven't wasted the earth's resources, I also haven't wasted my own money. I am able to do pretty much as I like, and at 50, I'm retired, my elder son has graduated from a great college, his wife graduated from a good college, and neither has any debt to speak of because my husband and I paid for their educations. My younger son will not have to worry about money when he gets ready to go to college. It's already invested and earning income for him. My husband plans to retire at 53, in about two more months. We can live any where we want, own our home with no mortgage, and own our cars. I have NO DEBT. I have a retirement nest egg that should outlive me while I live comfortably the next 50 years. My husband is equally well set up. How is that "No fun"?

How did I do it? By living simply. Look at every purchase you are about to make. If you NEED it, buy it. If you only want it, ask yourself how it will add to your life, your world, or the world you want. If it does not add, do not buy it. Why bury yourself with belongings when they do not add to your life?

Entertain yourself by going green - use a bike to go for a ride with a friend. A picnic lunch packed in a basket is far more romantic than a bag from a fast food joint. Reading a book at the library costs little, and the book is still there for another to read another day. Gardening doesn't cost much, and gives wonderful rewards.

Clean "green." Use cold water to wash everything. Unless someone is ill and you are disinfecting the laundry, hot water is "overkill" in most situations. If you can hang your laundry out, don't run the drier. If your water is hard, you can "fluff" the stuff after it has air-dried to keep it from being stiff, but you will save a fortune by not running the heating element.

Recycle. You can get paid for aluminum: glass, metal cans, and some plastics are recyclable. Many places also take paper.

Turn off lights that are not in use. Put tv's and other appliances like the computer on power strips and turn off the power, not just the set. Open drapes to allow daylight in when you can. Take a cue from nature. When it gets dark out, go to sleep.

Organize your errands so that you go out on a route and do as many chores at one time as possible. Rather than a trip to the cleaners, a trip to the post office, and a trip to the store, do them all in one loop. Over time, it adds up to real savings. Learn to drive less aggressively. Using the gas to speed up just in time to throw on the breaks to slow down is wasteful, and nerve wracking. Allow yourself a few extra moments to go where you need to go. Don't drive in a hurry, and you'll be easier on your car, your gas bill, and your own nerves. You'll be less stressed, and less likely to make a mistake that could result in an accident, too. You'd be amazed at how many cars accelerate away from a traffic light, leaving me behind, and then are sitting at the next light as I roll up and it turns green.

Reduce the water and chemicals you need in your landscaping by planting native or climate tolerant plants. Around here, that means low-water, sun-loving plants. Instead of fertilizer, compost. If you can't compost, put a "compost" blade on your mower. PULL weeds rather than pouring chemicals on them. If you have one that is resistant, pour boiling hot water on it. That will kill it, but it doesn't poison the land.

Buy "used" when you can. Furniture from second hand stores can be much better quality, solid wood and about the same price as particle board furniture from a Walmart. By reusing rather than buying new, you are reducing your impact, and keeping stuff out of landfills. If you can get your mind around "vintage" clothing, cookware, etc, you are again reducing your overall impact. (By buying used cars rather than new ones, we saved ourselves something to the tune of $50,000 in depreciation over the years. We always had reliable cars, but we let someone else take the depreciation hit. All we wanted was transportation, not status. )

Life isn't about the most stuff. I have nice things, but I don't need a lot. I have a loving marriage and two wonderful sons, a strong extended family and good friends. Live a good life. Not just earth day, every day.

.This is way more than you wanted to know, but hey, I didn't say "plant a tree."

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easy stuff and will save you money too.. and the planet

http://www.gomestic.com/Personal-Finance...

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Recycling is a great place to start! Your city will have a list of what they will take in the recycling bins and what they won't take. I can go to my city's web page and check to see what the rules are, etc. If your community has any kind of recyclling program city-wide, it will be there. Most cities also have recycling centers where people can take their recycable stuff, especially if they live, say, in an apartment complex that doesn't offer recycling bins. Some stuff can be cashed in. I "collect" aluminum cans from friends and neighbors and take them to a place that pays me by the pound. Last trip I made $35 for 4 large garbage bags full.

Any kind of plastic with the little triangular mark on it with a number inside--number 1 through 7--can be recycled, though not all communities or recycling centers take them all. Some are harder to recycle than others, or the city may not have buyers for certain kinds (not enough demand for them). Our city won't take styrofoam containers even though they're marked for recycling.

All cardboard and paper products can be recycyled. If I open a package of something with cardboard backing, it goes into the bin. Cereal boxes, any kind of food boxes except delivery pizza boxes. One note is beverage cartons that are coated with wax on the inside can't be recycled--milk cartons, orange juice cartons, and so on.

All glass, most metals, especially aluminum, tin, copper, etc. are recyclable. Vegetable cans, juice cans, all that.

My husband makes fun of me for the stuff he finds in the bins (toilet paper tubes, little cardboard make-up boxes, lids from fast food cups, etc.) but we're proud of doing it. Makes us very much more conscious of what we buy, as well. I now asky myself when I buy something, can this container be recycled?

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Environmentally friendly paint.

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To add to sysegin's fantastic answer....reuse grocery bags....or carry your own fabric totes... use "grey water" water from washing or bathing to water your plants....(dish soap is actually a good way to keep bugs out of your house plants), the Post Office takes batteries to recycle them. Usually towns or cities have a hazardous waste recycling day or place you can take things like computers, aerosole cans, and the best thing you can do to help corporations realize that this is an important issue is buy green and local. Also ther

Answer 4

paint yourself an emerald or a pond green.

theyre my fave types of green

Answer 5

You may use my:  My Best Recycling Idea

Besides recycling the plastic containers, you can improve your work or home environments by bringing live potted plants indoors.

Major items needed:

One empty plastic gallon container.   Tree Top Apple Juice is preferred, or equal in shape.

One empty plastic ½ gallon container.  Langers All Pomergranate Juice is preferred or equal.

Directions:  Lay the plastic gallon container on its side so the front label is facing up.  Place the empty plastic half gallon container on the label and with a sharpie pen outline the bottom on the Tree Top label and with a sharp knife carefully cut the outline.  Insert the half gallon into the hole until it rest on the back label of the gallon container.  Then mark and cut approximately one inch above the cut on the ½ gallon  to complete your planter container.  Remove and drill several ¼ inch holes on the bottom of the ½ gallon cut container for drainage.

Fill the cut ½ gallon planter with one inch of gravel before putting in good potting mix soil and live growing plant.  If you make two or more you can pour the water back and forth and not waste the water with the nutrients.

Go to NASA’s Clean Air Plant Study for the top ten plants that cleans the indoor air better than the rest.   http://www.zone10.com/tech/NASA/Fyh.htm

Answer 6

unplug things when not using them because they still use quite a bit of electricity . Change your light bulbs to the new energy efficient ones. Get a filter on your sink and take water from there instead of buying bottles water. Shut off lights when your not in a room. Walk instead of drive when you can. Try using things for something else instead of throwing out for an example a craft product from empty paper towel rolls. Buy a clock thermostat.  Gary Dominicus

Answer 7

Ok anything that is rescleble like||||

glass

plastic

newspaper/paper(not colored)

cans

bodles

things to do  |||

pick up garbage

recycle

Answer 8

Clean up parks and other public places

*Use recycled products (i.e. Recycled paper bags)

*Walk more often

*Don't Pollute

*Recycle!

*Reuse!

*Unleaded Diesel

*Protest against tree cutters

*Plant plants

*Make earth lovely

and finally...

*Spread the Word

*Enjoy what you do for Earth

Thanks there are many other ways as well :)

Be Creative

Answer 9

While I think it is important to do what you can  and many already put good points, still  in my opinion it is pointless if only you do this.  I  think global warming is real and has to be acted upon, but I am not about to get rid of my SUV(actually I am planning to change it to a hybrid SUV)! It does not matter what you or I do. Even if we drive a bike live in a studio be a vegetarian we still would not solve global warming.

The only way is to have global policy changes and this can be done by electing Democrats to power.

Answer 10

1. By eating fish that are caught in an environmentally responsible manner, you can help keep the marine ecosystem healthy, without compromising freshness and taste. Find out which fish are best and worst to choose.

2. When you're next in the market for a car, choose the one in your class with the highest fuel efficiency rating. You'll save money each time you fill up.

3. Check your tires once a month, since properly inflating your tires improves gas mileage. According to DOE, underinflated tires waste more than two million gallons of gasoline a day. And they're also a safety hazard.

4. Using fluorescent lights can be a major factor in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, a new compact fluorescent bulb uses 75% less energy than a standard incandescent and lasts about 10 times as long.

5. You prevent waste and save money whenever you reduce your purchases of disposable and overpackaged items or reuse more of what you already have. It's easy!

Answer 11

It's A HOAX! There is no global warming caused by humans, just a natural cycle the earth goes through, and we have nothing to do with it. You should be more concerned with learning to distinguish between truth & manipulation. Better yourself not the environment, if you want to contribute to a healthier society, where "going green" advertising would never be accepted if intelligence had any value

Answer 12

Wow - where to start.  Every day should be Earth day.  If you want a way to celebrate, how about a picnic somewhere with low-impact foods - stuff locally grown is often best.  Walk to the site.  When you are done, have those with you do a "leave it cleaner than we found it" activity, cleaning up things you didn't get dirty at the site.

  You can get greener in almost every aspect of your life, every day.  My family lives simply, and we do not miss the complications.  I told a young woman who asked a similar questions that by living frugally, I've been able to save money, live "green,"  and live well.  

She said, "Well, living frugally is no fun."  She is so wrong!  I have a wonderful full life, and because I haven't wasted the earth's resources, I also haven't wasted my own money.  I am able to do pretty much as I like, and at 50,  I'm retired, my elder son has graduated from a great college, his wife graduated from a good college, and neither has any debt to speak of because my husband and I paid for their educations.  My younger son will not have to worry about money when he gets ready to go to college.  It's already invested and earning income for him.  My husband plans to retire at 53, in about two more months.  We can live any where we want, own our home with no mortgage, and own our cars.  I have NO DEBT.  I have a retirement nest egg that should outlive me while I live comfortably the next 50 years.  My husband is equally well set up.  How is that "No fun"?

How did I do it?  By living simply.  Look at every purchase you are about to make.  If you NEED it, buy it.  If you only want it, ask yourself how it will add to your life, your world, or the world you want.  If it does not add, do not buy it.  Why bury yourself with belongings when they do not add to your life?

Entertain yourself by going green - use a bike to go for a ride with a friend.  A picnic lunch packed in a basket is far more romantic than a bag from a fast food joint. Reading a book at the library costs little, and the book is still there for another to read another day.  Gardening doesn't cost much, and gives wonderful rewards.

Clean "green."  Use cold water to wash everything.  Unless someone is ill and you are disinfecting the laundry, hot water is "overkill" in most situations.  If you can hang your laundry out, don't run the drier.  If your water is hard, you can "fluff" the stuff after it has air-dried to keep it from being stiff, but you will save a fortune by not running the heating element.

Recycle.  You can get paid for aluminum:   glass, metal cans, and some plastics are recyclable.  Many places also take paper.  

Turn off lights that are not in use.  Put tv's and other appliances like the computer on power strips and turn off the power, not just the set.   Open drapes to allow daylight in when you can.  Take a cue from nature.  When it gets dark out, go to sleep.

Organize your errands so that you go out on a route and do as many chores at one time as possible.  Rather than a trip to the cleaners, a trip to the post office, and a trip to the store, do them all in one loop.  Over time, it adds up to real savings.  Learn to drive less aggressively.  Using the gas to speed up just in time to throw on the breaks to slow down is wasteful, and nerve wracking.  Allow yourself a few extra moments to go where you need to go.  Don't drive in a hurry, and you'll be easier on your car, your gas bill, and your own nerves.  You'll be less stressed, and less likely to make a mistake that could result in an accident, too.  You'd be amazed at how many cars  accelerate away from a traffic light, leaving me behind, and then are sitting at the next light as I roll up and it turns green.  

Reduce the water and chemicals you need in your landscaping by planting native or climate tolerant plants.  Around here, that means low-water, sun-loving plants.  Instead of fertilizer, compost.  If you can't compost, put a "compost" blade on your mower.    PULL weeds rather than pouring chemicals on them.  If you have one that is resistant, pour boiling hot water on it.  That will kill it, but it doesn't poison the land.  

Buy "used" when you can.  Furniture from second hand stores can be  much better quality, solid wood and about the same price as particle board furniture from a Walmart.  By reusing rather than buying new, you are reducing your impact, and keeping stuff out of landfills.  If you can get your mind around "vintage" clothing, cookware, etc, you are again reducing your overall impact.  (By buying used cars rather than new ones, we saved ourselves something to the tune of $50,000 in depreciation over the years.  We always had reliable cars, but we let someone else take the depreciation hit.  All we wanted was transportation, not status. )

Life isn't about the most stuff.  I have nice things, but I don't need a lot.  I have a loving marriage and two wonderful sons, a strong extended family and good friends.  Live a good life.  Not just earth day, every day.

.This is way more than you wanted to know, but hey, I didn't say "plant a tree."

Answer 13

1. carpool with a friend

2. Turn off water when brushing teeth

3. Unplug electronics when not in use

4. Donate old cloths

5. Recycle paper

6. Ride your bike, take a bus, or catch a train

7. Switch off lights while not in the room

8. Use cold water for laundry

9. Save water, share a shower

10. Use cotton totes as grocery bags

Answer 14

To add to sysegin's fantastic answer....reuse grocery bags....or carry your own fabric totes... use "grey water" water from washing or bathing to water your plants....(dish soap is actually a good way to keep bugs out of your house plants), the Post Office takes batteries  to recycle them. Usually towns or cities have a hazardous waste recycling day or place you can take things like computers, aerosole cans, and the best thing you can do to help corporations realize that this is an important issue is buy green and local. Also there are some utilities that have a green program...your utility bill goes up a bit but a percentage goes to renewable energy.....oh and be wary of the big polluters like Walmart that are just trying to Brand themselves "Green"....you can check out on the web who is certified "Green" and find out exactly how green they are.

Answer 15

easy stuff and will save you money too.. and the planet

http://www.gomestic.com/Personal-Finance...

Answer 16

Read this article from HGTV Green Home. It has lots of ideas to go green. Give this article to anyone you know that owns a home.

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/green_home_2008...

Answer 17

Recycle paper, glass, plastics at home

Recycle at work and school

Replace light bulbs with new CFL bulbs

Use reusable bags when you go grocery shopping

Combine your trips so that you drive less

Walk or bicycle instead of drive when you can

Lower the thermostat in the winter

Raise the thermostat in the summer

Avoid bottled water - its just filtered tap water transported over long distances

Clean the air filter on your furnace

Buy organics and/or shop at your local farmers market

Get informed

Vote for leaders who will make sound environmental policies

Change your attitude to use less stuff and consider what's good for the common good.

Oh yeah, go plant a tree :-)

Answer 18

All good ideas posted here.  One more. To lower your carbon imprint and your energy bill, unplug appliances that aren't in use.  Put all of your electronics like tv, dvd, sat, on a surge protector and turn it off at night.  Unplug phone and computer chargers when they aren't charging.  They all pull energy.

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Earth (pronounced /ˈɝːθ/)[6] is the third planet from the Sun and is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in both diameter and mass. It is also referred to as the Earth, Planet Earth, the World, and Terra.[7]

Home to millions of species,[8] including humans, Earth is the only place in the universe where life is known to exist. Scientific evidence indicates that the planet formed 4.54 billion years ago,[9][10][11][12] and life appeared on its surface within a billion years. Since then, Earth's biosphere has significantly altered the atmosphere and other abiotic conditions on the planet, enabling the proliferation of aerobic organisms as well as the formation of the ozone layer which, together with Earth's magnetic field, blocks harmful radiation, permitting life on land.[13]

Earth's outer surface is divided into several rigid segments, or tectonic plates, that gradually migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years. About 71% of the surface is covered with salt-water oceans, the remainder consisting of continents and islands; liquid water, necessary for all known life, is not known to exist on any other planet's surface.[14][15] Earth's interior remains active, with a thick layer of relatively solid mantle, a liquid outer core that generates a magnetic field, and a solid iron inner core.

Earth interacts with other objects in outer space, including the Sun and the Moon. At present, Earth orbits the Sun once for every roughly 366.26 times it rotates about its axis. This length of time is a sidereal year, which is equal to 365.26 solar days.[16] The Earth's axis of rotation is tilted 23.4° away from the perpendicular to its orbital plane,[17] producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface with a period of one tropical year (365.24 solar days). Earth's only known natural satellite, the Moon, which began orbiting it about 4.53 billion years ago, provides ocean tides, stabilizes the axial tilt and gradually slows the planet's rotation. A cometary bombardment during the early history of the planet played a role in the formation of the oceans.[18] Later, asteroid impacts caused significant changes to the surface environment.

History

Main article: History of Earth

Scientists have been able to reconstruct detailed information about the planet's past. Earth and the other planets in the Solar System formed 4.54 billion years ago[9] out of the solar nebula, a disk-shaped mass of dust and gas left over from the formation of the Sun. Initially molten, the outer layer of the planet Earth cooled to form a solid crust when water began accumulating in the atmosphere. The Moon formed soon afterwards, possibly as the result of a Mars-sized object (sometimes called Theia) with about 10% of the Earth's mass[19] impacting the Earth in a glancing blow.[20] Some of this object's mass would have merged with the Earth and a portion would have been ejected into space, but enough material would have been sent into orbit to form the Moon.

Outgassing and volcanic activity produced the primordial atmosphere. Condensing water vapor, augmented by ice delivered by comets, produced the oceans.[18] The highly energetic chemistry is believed to have produced a self-replicating molecule around 4 billion years ago, and half a billion years later, the last common ancestor of all life existed.[21]

The development of photosynthesis allowed the Sun's energy to be harvested directly by life forms; the resultant oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere and resulted in a layer of ozone (a form of molecular oxygen [O3]) in the upper atmosphere. The incorporation of smaller cells within larger ones resulted in the development of complex cells called eukaryotes.[22] True multicellular organisms formed as cells within colonies became increasingly specialized. Aided by the absorption of harmful ultraviolet radiation by the ozone layer, life colonized the surface of Earth.[23]

Beginning with almost no dry land, the total amount of surface lying above the oceans has steadily increased. During the past two billion years, for example, the total size of the continents has doubled.[24] As the surface continually reshaped itself, over hundreds of millions of years, continents formed and broke up. The continents migrated across the surface, occasionally combining to form a supercontinent. Roughly 750 million years ago (mya), the earliest known supercontinent, Rodinia, began to break apart. The continents later recombined to form Pannotia, 600–540 mya, then finally Pangaea, which broke apart 180 mya.[25]

Since the 1960s, it has been hypothesized that severe glacial action between 750 and 580 mya, during the Neoproterozoic, covered much of the planet in a sheet of ice. This hypothesis has been termed "Snowball Earth", and is of particular interest because it preceded the Cambrian explosion, when multicellular life forms began to proliferate.[26]

Following the Cambrian explosion, about 535 mya, there have been five mass extinctions.[27] The last extinction event occurred 65 mya, when a meteorite collision probably triggered the extinction of the (non-avian) dinosaurs and other large reptiles, but spared small animals such as mammals, which then resembled shrews. Over the past 65 million years, mammalian life has diversified, and several mya, an African ape-like animal gained the ability to stand upright.[28] This enabled tool use and encouraged communication that provided the nutrition and stimulation needed for a larger brain. The development of agriculture, and then civilization, allowed humans to influence the Earth in a short time span as no other life form had,[29] affecting both the nature and quantity of other life forms.

The present pattern of ice ages began about 40 mya, then intensified during the Pleistocene about 3 mya. The polar regions have since undergone repeated cycles of glaciation and thaw, repeating every 40–100,000 years. The last ice age ended 10,000 years ago.[30]

[edit] Composition and structure

Further information: Earth physical characteristics tables

Earth is a terrestrial planet, meaning that it is a rocky body, rather than a gas giant like Jupiter. It is the largest of the four solar terrestrial planets, both in terms of size and mass. Of these four planets, Earth also has the highest density, the highest surface gravity and the strongest magnetic field.[31]

[edit] Shape

Main article: Figure of the Earth



Size comparison of inner planets (left to right): Mercury, Venus, Earth, and MarsThe Earth's shape is very close to an oblate spheroid—a rounded shape with a bulge around the equator—although the precise shape (the geoid) varies from this by up to 100 meters.[32] The average diameter of the reference spheroid is about 12,742 km. More approximately the distance is 40,000 km/π because the meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole through Paris, France.[33]

The rotation of the Earth creates the equatorial bulge so that the equatorial diameter is 43 km larger than the pole to pole diameter.[34] The largest local deviations in the rocky surface of the Earth are Mount Everest (8,848 m above local sea level) and the Mariana Trench (10,911 m below local sea level). Hence compared to a perfect ellipsoid, the Earth has a tolerance of about one part in about 584, or 0.17%, which is less than the 0.22% tolerance allowed in billiard balls.[35] Because of the bulge, the feature farthest from the center of the Earth is actually Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador.[36]

[edit] Chemical composition

See also: Abundance of elements on Earth

F. W. Clarke's Table of Crust Oxides Compound Formula Composition

silica SiO2 59.71%

alumina Al2O3 15.41%

lime CaO 4.90%

Magnesia MgO 4.36%

sodium oxide Na2O 3.55%

iron(II) oxide FeO 3.52%

potassium oxide K2O 2.80%

iron(III) oxide Fe2O3 2.63%

water H2O 1.52%

titanium dioxide TiO2 0.60%

phosphorus pentoxide P2O5 0.22%

Total 99.22%

The mass of the Earth is approximately 5.98×1024 kg. It is composed mostly of iron (32.1%), oxygen (30.1%), silicon (15.1%), magnesium (13.9%), sulfur (2.9%), nickel (1.8%), calcium (1.5%), and aluminium (1.4%); with the remaining 1.2% consisting of trace amounts of other elements. Due to mass segregation, the core region is believed to be primarily composed of iron (88.8%), with smaller amounts of nickel (5.8%), sulfur (4.5%), and less than 1% trace elements.[37]

The geochemist F. W. Clarke calculated that a little more than 47% of the Earth's crust consists of oxygen. The more common rock constituents of the Earth's crust are nearly all oxides; chlorine, sulfur and fluorine are the only important exceptions to this and their total amount in any rock is usually much less than 1%. The principal oxides are silica, alumina, iron oxides, lime, magnesia, potash and soda. The silica functions principally as an acid, forming silicates, and all the commonest minerals of igneous rocks are of this nature. From a computation based on 1,672 analyses of all kinds of rocks, Clarke deduced that 99.22% were composed of 11 oxides (see the table at right.) All the other constituents occur only in very small quantities.[38]

[edit] Internal structure

Main article: Structure of the Earth



Earth cutaway from core to exosphere. Not to scale.The interior of the Earth, like that of the other terrestrial planets, is chemically divided into layers. The Earth has an outer silicate solid crust, a highly viscous mantle, a liquid outer core that is much less viscous than the mantle, and a solid inner core. The crust is separated from the mantle by the Mohorovičić discontinuity, and the thickness of the crust varies: averaging 6 km under the oceans and 30–50 km on the continents.[39]

The geologic component layers of the Earth[40] are at the followi

Answer 20

Recycling is a great place to start!  Your city will have a list of what they will take in the recycling bins and what they won't take.  I can go to my city's web page and check to see what the rules are, etc.  If your community has any kind of recyclling program city-wide, it will be there.  Most cities also have recycling centers where people can take their recycable stuff, especially if they live, say, in an apartment complex that doesn't offer recycling bins.  Some stuff can be cashed in.  I "collect" aluminum cans from friends and neighbors and take them to a place that pays me by the pound.  Last trip I made $35 for 4 large garbage bags full.

Any kind of plastic with the little triangular mark on it with a number inside--number 1 through 7--can be recycled, though not all communities or recycling centers take them all.  Some are harder to recycle than others, or the city may not have buyers for certain kinds (not enough demand for them).  Our city won't take styrofoam containers even though they're marked for recycling.  

All cardboard and paper products can be recycyled.  If I open a package of something with cardboard backing, it goes into the bin.  Cereal boxes, any kind of food boxes except delivery pizza boxes.  One note is beverage cartons that are coated with wax on the inside can't be recycled--milk cartons, orange juice cartons, and so on.

All glass, most metals, especially aluminum, tin, copper, etc. are recyclable. Vegetable cans, juice cans, all that.

My husband makes fun of me for the stuff he finds in the bins (toilet paper tubes, little cardboard make-up boxes, lids from fast food cups, etc.) but we're proud of doing it.  Makes us very much more conscious of what we buy, as well.  I now asky myself when I buy something, can this container be recycled?

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Plastic bottles are recyclable. So is paper, and soda cans.

You could also turn the water off while brushing your teeth too. If you write reports instead of writing them on paper you could write them on the computer. Then less trees will be cut down.I know it just sounds like one little tree not being cut down, but you could save animals that way.