Many of us come from the generation whose mantra it has been Reduce-Reuse-Recycle.

The true fact of the matter is only 40% of people recycle and of them only 15% recycle up to 30% of their waste.  We are a culture of more, better and new so we certainly do not Reuse.  Reduce – yea right we just love all that pretty packaging and the newest, latest, and greatest models and styles.  We are a throw away & trash creating culture.

Most of us are very unaware of what we throw away and how often we trash things.  My new favorite book is “Gorgeously Green” by Sophie Uliano.  In this book Sophie covers all the basics of recycling and going green but Sophie does for Green what “Skinny Bitch” by Freedman & Barnouin did for Vegans.  She made being green accessible, fun, and wrote in a language that just spoke to me (“Skinny Bitch” went over board in the language dept.).