Looking for ways to protect our environment? An easy place to make a difference is with your child’s lunch or even your own lunch. Though water bottles, juice boxes and individually wrapped “grab and go” foods are convenient, they generate tons of trash! Each year the average child dumps 67 pounds of lunchbox trash costing school districts valuable dollars to collect and dispose of the trash—not to mention the toll it takes on our shrinking landfill space. Re-thinking how your child’s meal gets packed can reduce trash going to landfills and has some unexpected benefits as well. At first it …
Today is the 41st Anniversary of Earth Day! It’s a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s natural environment. Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, was inspired by the anti-war movement led by students of the time and decided to try and harness that energy to raise awareness for air and water pollution. The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970 and was considered to be the birth of the environmental movement when 20 million Americans turned up to rally and demonstrate for a sustainable environment. The first Earth Day was a tremendous…
As I sit down to write this article, I can’t help but think of a bunch of my friends that do not recycle at all. They have a laundry list of reasons why: “It’s so hard to do,” or “Who cares?” and “I pay enough taxes in Holmdel”…the list goes on and on! Why recycle you ask? We need to recycle for many environmental reasons, as well as monetary reasons. The future of your children and grandchildren are depending on it. Recycling is mandated by the state of New Jersey, and Holmdel in turn receives financial grants based on the percentage collected. Did you know that? The less we recycle, the …
