waste Archives - Small Things Count https://smthingscount.com/tag/waste/ Making a More Loving World/Free Books Sat, 27 Jun 2020 15:18:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Put Your Fish to Work https://smthingscount.com/2020/06/27/put-your-fish-to-work/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 15:18:14 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=9374 Don’t waste that water your fish have enriched with nutrients.  When cleaning the fish tank, use the water on your plants and trees. You think

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]]> $4 Billion Worth of Milk https://smthingscount.com/2020/04/04/4-billion-worth-of-milk/ Sat, 04 Apr 2020 17:36:53 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8979 That’s how much money is wasted every year by discarding perfectly good milk. That’s 34 pounds of safe-to-drink milk per person. And mostly because of

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]]> Save Bread (Both Types) https://smthingscount.com/2018/11/17/save-bread-both-types/ Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:26:23 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=7476 So much bread goes stale, then into the garbage. It’s a waste of money and natural resources to grow the grain to make it. Check

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]]> ANOTHER Darned Election???!!! https://smthingscount.com/2018/10/31/another-darned-election/ Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:24:00 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=7425 ANOTHER DARN ELECTION!  It never comes out the way I’d vote.  It’s just a waste of time and money. Actually, it will be a waste

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]]> Too Good to Waste https://smthingscount.com/2018/04/28/too-good-to-waste/ Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:27:15 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=6850 Want to save money on your food bill and be kinder to the Earth at the same time? You’d be surprised how much good food

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]]> What a Waste! https://smthingscount.com/2018/02/06/what-a-waste/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:04:55 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=6650 “Consumption has become a habit, a hobby and a sport” (Evy McDonald, Spending  Money as if Life Really Mattered).  True.  I recycle but don’t  always

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]]> Feel Less Guilty About Christmas https://smthingscount.com/2017/12/23/feel-less-guilty-about-christmas/ Sat, 23 Dec 2017 19:03:54 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=6508 Look at the mess (before and after Christmas)--tossed gift wrap (can’t burn the wrap with wax or metal in it), lots of leftovers (can’t eat

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]]> Waste Incinerator, People, and Policy https://smthingscount.com/2017/07/01/saturday-waste-incinerator-people-and-policy/ Sat, 01 Jul 2017 18:15:48 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=5946 What happened in Puerto Rico can happen anywhere in the U.S. A law–the National Environmental Policy Act–is helping people who already suffer with an epidemic

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]]> Hope Amid Horror https://smthingscount.com/2017/06/29/hope-amid-horror/ Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:52:18 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=5969 Anne Frank lived–and hid–in an unbelievably harsh, cruel world.  Yet even she had hope for the world, as today’s Thursday Thought quote shows.  

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]]> Stop U.S. Postal Service https://smthingscount.com/2016/11/05/stop-u-s-postal-service/ Sat, 05 Nov 2016 16:49:03 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=5342 Do you receive one or more copies of the thick-papered, glossy, full-color U.S. Postal Service’s USA Philatelic but don’t collect stamps and are disgusted by the waste of money and

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