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Stewards of the Earth
Aziraphale:
One of my pet peeves is those self-flushing toilets in public restrooms. I've had them flush on me anywhere from three to five times, and I'm usually pretty quick about things. Then the damn thing keeps flushing every few minutes, even if there's nobody using it. How many hundreds of gallons are wasted per toilet per day on something like that?
explicit:
Maybe that's why those sinks with the motion detectors never work? So they make up for all the flushing their toilets do.
metastasis_d:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 02 Feb 2015, 09:40 ---Also LED bulbs don't give off uv light so they dont attract bugs!
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That's actually really useful info. Maybe I just don't see enough advertisements anymore overall, but I've never seen this advantage advertised ant that seems silly.
--- Quote from: Aimless on 02 Feb 2015, 09:53 ---
2. Change how you buy, cook and save food in such ways as to minimise food waste. Bonus: save money, empty trash less often, have less smelly home.
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On this subject: even if you aren't really into recycling, having separate trash cans for recyclable containers/paper/cardboard can make it to where you really reduce the amount of trash you have to take out every week. And if you have a garden, composting can reduce it even more. I'm lucky in that my city issues free recycling bags for our trash cans, and we can put the recycling out on Mondays along with the trash and the recycling crew will come through behind the trash crew.
--- Quote from: explicit on 02 Feb 2015, 12:43 ---Maybe that's why those sinks with the motion detectors never work? So they make up for all the flushing their toilets do.
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Joke's on them; that's why I just wash my hand in the toilet.
hedgie:
I don't drive. Even if I did have more money, I wouldn't. I cycle or take transit everywhere.
explicit:
--- Quote from: metastasis_d on 02 Feb 2015, 22:01 ---
On this subject: even if you aren't really into recycling, having separate trash cans for recyclable containers/paper/cardboard can make it to where you really reduce the amount of trash you have to take out every week. And if you have a garden, composting can reduce it even more. I'm lucky in that my city issues free recycling bags for our trash cans, and we can put the recycling out on Mondays along with the trash and the recycling crew will come through behind the trash crew.
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My town gave us a bucket for recycling, though I was surprised when I found out some towns don't have any recycling options (I have no idea how really small work really). Given two options people are going to choose what's easiest and just throw everything away together..
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