9 Green Basic Things you Should be Doing in your Everyday Life

Helping the environment is easier than we think.

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There are so many easy eco-friendly changes you can make in your life. If you haven’t started with the basics, and are feeling like a complete newbie to the eco-warrior lifestyle this is where you should start. These are the things that have been incorporated into everyday life to make the world a better place.

Recycle
My fuck, just recycle. It’s easy. Grab your blue bin. Throw your plastics and glass and cardboards and paper in and go about your damn day. I have to take my recyclables to the dump where they have a recycling facility. It’s annoying and I still do it. If you live inside the city and live in a house, chances are you’re going to have a recycling program. It’s even easier. You just take your bin out and it magically gets taken away. Cool, huh?

Apartment dwellers: does your apartment complex live in the early ’90s and not have a recycling program? Get your neighbours together, talk to the property manager or caretaker and get that shit going.
You can also just start your own. My old room-mate and I used to just put our own recycling bin out at the curb. This was before those fancy-ass garbage collectors required fancy-ass garbage and recycling bins. Hilariously enough…