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Plastic bags consumed this year:
Plastic bag counter, courtesy of Reusablebags.com
Welcome to Prairiewoods Green Page. On this site you will find news about our campaign: Fantastic It's Not Plastic - Let's Keep Cedar Rapids (and all of Iowa for that matter) Plastic Bag Free.
This is a campaign dedicated to reducing plastic bag consumption. Prairiewoods sees the ever-growing use of non-recyclable and non-biodegradable plastic bags as a serious environmental problem. Our landfills are clogged with plastics and our roads and waterways are degraded by them.
Our goal with this campaign is to educate the public about the cost of plastics on the environment. If asked if you want Paper or Plastic, a better response is "Neither." Reusable shopping bags take minimal energy to create, they're durable and will last for years. Consider that one bag will pay for itself in a year-and-a-half if you buy groceries once a week. One cloth bag will eliminate the need for more than 1000 plastic bags.
What you can do:
- Start using reusable bags. Bags are available at area grocery stores for a variety of prices, ranging from $1 to $5.
- Refuse a bag. If you don't need one, don't take one.
- Reuse plastic bags. Recycle the others. Recycle locations for bags numbered 2 and 4, which are most grocery store type bags and other retail store bags, are at area Hy-Vee stores, the Cedar Rapids and Linn County Solid Waste Agency at 1954 County Home Rd., Marion and at City Carton, 901 Ingleside Dr. SW.
- Persuade your favorite store to offer bag credits for bringing your own bag.
- Pledge today to "Bring Your Own Bag" and pass the word along.
"I went to the store. I bought a wastebasket. The cashier put it in a bag. I brought it home. I took it out of the bag. I crumpled up the bag and tossed it in the wastebasket."
- Lily Tomlin
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Companies/organizations that support this campaign:
| The Gazette |
Alliant Energy Foundation |
| Toyota Financial |
Howard R. Green |
| OPN Architects |
Indian Creek Nature Center |
| Trees Forever |
Sierra Club |
| Clipper Windpower |
CR/LC Solid Waste Agency |
| Iowa Waste Exchange |
Sisters of Mercy |
| Linn Co. Conservation |
GREEN Group/Mount Mercy |
| Cart by Cart |
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Links for green living:
Alliant Energy's Power House
www.powerhousetv.com
Linn Co. Solid Waste Agency
www.solidwasteagency.org
Department of Natural Resources
www.iowadnr.com
Low Impact Living
www.lowimpactliving.com
Links to reusable bag websites:
www.enviro-tote.com
www.earthwisebags.com
www.greenbag.info/green-bag-products
www.cartbycart.com
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