I harvest rain water for watering my garden and washing my car, water from my washing machine is used for washing the floors and drains, I compost all my fruit and vegetable peelings as well as dead leaves and grass cuttings. I use vinegar and sodium bicarbonate with water to clean a lot of things instead of buying especially fragrant bottled cleansers for different places in the house. I use screw pine leaves from my garden for all my drawers and cupboards as they deter insects and leave a very natural smell.

A thirty foot tall inflatable recycling bin promoting The Great Recycle campaign seen at an Earth Day fair in Union Square in New York on Sunday, April 21, 2013. [Photo/IC]

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