Green Tips - Going Green Pays!

• The Dishwasher! Use it! It's greener than hand-washing - if you run it with full loads and scrape rather that rinse. The average dishwasher in American homes today uses 8.7 gallons of water a load. Washing by hand for 10 minutes with water running can use 20 galloons.
• Dont use hot water when doing laundry. heating water to hot accounts for 90 percent of the machine's washing energy! Switching to cold can save the average household more than $400 annually with an electric water heater.
• Plug equipment into a surge protector-power strip. Power off all equipment and then turn off the power strip at the end of the day.
• Fix leaky toilets.A leaky toilet can waste 200 gallons of water a day!
• Every ton of paper that gets recycled saves the equivalents of 17 trees, thus saving enough energy to power an average home for six months, saves 7000 gallons of water and keeps 60 pounds of pollutants out of the air.
• Office Depot and OfficeMax take back ink and toner cartridges- and hand you a 3$ store coupon for your effort.Refill instade of buying a new one.
• E-liminate it. Recycle your electronics waste. Visit www.earth911.com for a list of collection sites.
• Get rid of your screen savers. It takes more energy to run those floating toasters or even a static image than it does to have your computer and monitor go into a low-power mode.It can save you 50$ to 100$ a year on your electric bill. Please go green with us!