GREEN TIPS

Helpful article to read: 'Ecoholic' a guide to green products in Canada   CTV News 
  1. Sexy sustainable style:  Near Future
  2. Offset your carbon footprint:  Ostrom Climate
  3. ecofont - use up to 20% less ink: Ecofont

 

Cleaning products:

  1. How to make your own green cleaning kit:  Care2
  2. Citra-Solv Concentrated Cleaner & Degreaser: Shadow Lake Pure Castile Soap: Citra-Solv, Ridgefield, CT, 800-343-6588; citrasolv.com for retailers, or at Loblaws and natural products stores across Canada.
  3. Seventh Generation Natural All Purpose Cleaner: Seventh Generation; seventhgeneration.com for retailers.
  4. Fruits & Passion Art Home Ecological Heavy Duty Cleaner: Fruits & Passion, 800-276-9952; fruits-passion.com for retailers and to shop on-line within Canada
  5. Nature Clean All-Purpose Cleaning Lotion: F.T. Ross and Sons, Toronto; at Loblaws and most natural food retailers.
  1. Rogers Wireless, its subsidiary Fido, and Sony Style are sponsors of the Phones for Food program. If you take back your cell phone to one of their shops, they will recycle or refurbish it and support a local food bank. And all new Rogers and Fido wireless devices now come with a postage-paid recycling envelope.
  2. Bell Mobility will recycle any brand cell phone, battery and all accessories and donate proceeds to the Canadian Mental Health Association. You can bring them to any of their authorized retailers. You can also ship your phone by Canada Post, free of charge, or bring the devices to a participating Caisse Desjardins. Bell Canada also has an environmental policy, which aims to cut energy consumption and reduce green house gases.
  3. Telus will recycle any brand cell phone, battery and all accessories. In partnership with Tree Canada a tree will be planted for each subscriber that brings in a mobile phone, battery or accessory for recycling. Telus also has an environmental policy.
  4. As part of the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) program, all rechargeable batteries are recycled and processed at facilities designed to recycle metals. Cell phones are either refurbished or recycled. ReCellular, Inc., a refurbisher of wireless equipment, has been working with the RBRC to process and resell the recycled phones. For more information, visit Call2recycle or call 877-273-2925.
  5. Apple stores: recycle iPhones.
  6. Best Buy accepts cell phones and other electronic equipment for recycling. They also have an environmental policy.
  7. McGill Waste Management takes batteries for recycling.
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