The Recycling Association of Minnesota (RAM) has a program called “Message in a Bottle.” RAM will place a recycle barrel at your business and schedule vocational centers to pick up the recyclables.
Are you a business in Southwest Minneapolis? I would like to help you apply for a customer recycling barrel to capture your customer’s bottles and cans that are now thrown into the trash. These barrels would be placed near your trash containers. Please contact me at health4earth@gmail.com and I will start the application process. Limited barrels are currently available so get back to me as soon as possible.
There is no cost to participating businesses, and it should save you money by reducing your trash!
“Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life” Rachel Carson
A Fritillary on Menardia
Our pollinators are declining at a rapid rate. Yes, there are things that each one of use can do. Calling for more research is a waste of valuable time. It is time for everyone to act.
Below is a good commentary on the loss of our bees:
So what can you do? We are so awash in chemicals we aren’t even aware of them anymore. Below is a list of things that can make a difference for pollinators and for your health, also.
1. Reduce all yard chemicals, and reduce the size of your mowable yard with flowers that pollinators love.
2. Plant more flowers that attract a variety of pollinators. My favorite for Minnesota and
English: Culver’s root, Veronicastrum virginicum. Shot from above at around 4pm, Leland IL. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Wisconsin are: Bee Balm, Culver’s Root. Cone Flowers, Hyssop, chives, Russian Sage, Liatris (blazing star), wild geranium, and golden rod.
3. Buy organically produced food, and reduce the beef you eat.
4. Reduce the amount of chemicals in your home for cleaning and construction.
5. Support candidates and elected officials that believe in global warming.
6. Never throw chemicals, worms or fish(they can be invasive) into our streams, lakes or storm drains.
7. And..basically anything you do to for clean air, clean water. and save energy helps all wildlife and humans.
If I have a choice when I travel, I try to eat at real plate restaurants. As you travel across the USA this not always possible. Subway is the only place from which I will purchase fast convenience food. They have fresh food, and most of their packaging is tolerable, except for their plastic salad bowls and ALL the plastic bags they distribute!! Yesterday, I tried to reuse my washed bowl for my Subway salad. I thought they would reuse it, but they wouldn’t. Yes, I support good health practices!! But..my reply to them was, “Then, you should be recycling these bowls!” Subway also should be recycling all the plastic bags they distribute.
We can comment to businesses we patronize that they should do more to recycle, and always choose business that have the best environmental policy.
We collect our recycles as we travel and lug them home to put in our home recycling, and we bring our own reusable dishes for hotel breakfasts.
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