What do you do with all the junk mail you get? Or, for that matter, any mail? Shred anything with personal information on it and keep it along with all discarded paper, and drop it at one of the many bins all over Massachusetts to be recycled. Even better, change every bill you have to electronic statements. Most companies save at least a year of statements to view online, and you can just save the statements on your computer for easy access. Can’t beat it - less paper mail also helps those of us who tend to be ‘organizationally challenged’. Recycling is easy to do, and is becoming mandatory in cities and towns around the commonwealth.
My second tip involves saving money. All those plastic bottles of water we buy and drink and toss out? Buy a durable water bottle, wash it fairly often, and use a faucet-mounted water filter or a pitcher to put in the fridge if you don’t enjoy drinking regular tap water. Replacement filters are cheap and each filter lasts several months depending how much you use, but most estimates state the price for the unit and filters amounts to about a nickel per gallon. How much did you pay for your last bottle of water at the gas station?
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