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Friday Quickie: Don’t Overbuy for Back to School

Back to school… Back to school…

(Those were the days…)

Make your students’  journey back to school a sustainable one. This year, practice the 3 R’s: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

Reduce: Ignore those “back to school” lists of things to buy. Take a house inventory to see what supplies you still have.

Reuse: Try to reuse backs of old papers to make ‘recycled paper’ notebooks.

Recycle: When you need to buy supplies, buy recycled products.

Readers, what are you doing to green your students’ back to school journey?

 

Photo: Ecohabits

 

 

Julie Hancher

Julie Hancher is Editor-in-Chief of Green Philly, sharing her expertise of all things sustainable in the city of brotherly love. She enjoys long walks in the park with local beer and greening her travels, cooking & cat, Sir Floofus Drake.

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