Greentown Dennis Swender, Family and Consumer Sciences, Eastern High School I haven't been able to do a lot of “green” things yet at work, but my wife and I have done a lot at home. When we lived in an apartment, the two of us usually had two to three bags of trash a week. Now, we run an in-home daycare and have a boarder and have about one bag of trash. The rest we take to the recycling center. We also use environmentally-safe kitty litter for our four cats. It works better than any clay or other litter type. It is made out of corn. We’ve also tried purchasing a lot of our food from local sources or organic markets. We are actually going on a year-long experiment of purchasing no new goods. We are trying to get everything second-hand or doing without. It has been a great adventure.

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