Every week we'll post another easy tip to help you be environmentally friendly.
Eco-Tip 33
Quality or quantity? Here's another aspect to look for before making a purchase: durability. Now the durability of a product should be important to anybody, environmentally conscious or not, but it should be especially important to you just because you are environmentally conscious. If you buy something and it breaks, there are two paths: it gets recycled or otherwise dismantled so that the parts can be pieced together into something else (good) or it's simply thrown out to sit in a land fill for a couple thousand years (bad). Now although the former option is good, it still requires energy that would otherwise be unnecessary. The best thing to do is to plan ahead and make sure a product is durable enough to be worth the money and the environmental burden inherent in the materials and production.
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