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Here are 10 simple ways EarthMenders help the planet while helping their parents and teachers, too. (Download a PDF version.)
- Turn off the lightsconserves energy, cuts down on pollution and saves money on your parents' electric/light bulb bills
- Catch the buscuts down on air pollution conserves gas and saves your parents time and gas money
- Clean your plate and eat leftoverscuts back on energy used for
agriculture and keeps your parents’ grocery bills down
- Pick-up your toys from the yardhelps your parents and the toys will
last longer
- Pick-up your clothes. They’ll last longer, saving your parents money...
Plus, if you keep them clean, you can often wear them again, cutting back
on chemicals, energy and water used to wash clothes
- Put your own paper and plastic in the recycle binkeeps your room
clean and cuts down on landfill waste
- Pick up trash in your yard or around the schooltidies the grounds and keeps trash from entering our soil and waterways
- Don’t beg for fast foodsaves your parents money and cuts back on disposable waste
- Pass down sibling's clothescuts down on the budget, cuts back on
energy and resources needed to produce and ship
- Turn off the watercuts down on water/water softening/water heater
bills while conserving our natural resources.
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365 Ways to Save the Earth

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