Blogger Friend School #24 – The Three R’s

I wanted so bad last week to have some of you ladies to leave me a couple of ideas for the next few weeks assignments. I didn’t get a single one~ I was so surprised not to get any at all. So, here I go with this weeks assignment. I’m very open to any ideas you all have and would love to hear from you. Feel free to leave a comment about one or email me with anything you have. Maybe you just need someone to bounce an idea off of, I’m very open to that too.

This week’s assignment is The Three R’s — Reduce, Recycle, and Re-use. I thought since today is Earth Day and this month is Arbor Day that we all could share ideas or tips that we use for recycling, reducing or re-using items in our home. Do you recycle at all? Does it just seem nearly impossible to recycle? Trying to catch every piece of trash that goes into the garbage is a hard one for me too. I have a friend who is very diligent with it and so are her children! It amazed me to see how they re-spect nature and use the Three R’s in their home. I challenge you all to write about your ventures with recycling, reducing, and re-using your trash and take a pledge to at least try to use some of the tips that you read about on this assignment. Don’t forget to add your favorite scripture for this assignment.

Here’s mine:
My family and I are not diligent enough about the Three R’s but we should be more conserving. Things that we do to try to be more advantageous about are these:

• We try to save on fuel by not going anywhere we absolutely do not have to. That means making one trip count the most and doing several things in that trip.
• We re-use most plastic that we purchase; i.e., water bottles or drink bottles get filled with water. We rarely have cans to throw out since we don’t buy soft drinks or canned vegetables.
• We do recycle paper and glass products instead of throwing them into the dump.
• We did decide to join the Arbor Day foundation, for $15/year and received 10 trees that we have planted to take the place of some trees we had to cut down because they were rotting.

Our Pledge

• We are going to start composting our trash and use it to fertilize our garden that we plant for food that we can preserve to use later on.

Like I said we have lots of room for improvement but we are going in the right direction. I can’t wait to read all of your ideas and your pledges.