Dell has announced plans to simplify and revolutionize its computer packaging and make it as their green steps. The company estimates that over the next four years, these new green packaging intiatives will save more than $8.1 million and about 20 million pounds of packaging material.

By 2012, Dell wants to:

• Reduce desktop and laptop packaging materials by approximately 10 percent worldwide.
• Increase sustainable content in cushioning and corrugate packaging by 40 percent.
• Ensure that 75 percent of packaging components are curbside recyclable.

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

To my surprise, last posting on 3 steps to turn your business green had gained many visitors’ attention. That encourages us to write more implemented 3R steps to be done. This time, 1000 Green Steps will show you just how easy to apply that exact same 3R at your very own home. Continue reading

Reduce

Reduce paper towels usage, and use cloth towels instead. To make things simpler, just avoid using anything disposable. That will just increases your unnecessary waste.

Try to buy everything you need ONLY IF it is packaged with eco-friendly packaging. Example: Choose card board-packaged eggs instead of Styrofoam-packaged eggs.

Reuse

Conduct a small (or big) garage sale for goods you don’t need anymore. This is 1000 Green Steps favorite step since it could make us money and being eco-friendly all at once.

Maybe you can choose old books from your shelf to be donated to your local library and see if they could use them.

If none of those works, I still have a back-up plan. In my upcoming post, I will show you how to make some Do-It-Yourself things you’ll like. Try to do that, and reuse your old stuff.

Recycle

Bundle up all non-organic stuff inside your house and give them to your local recycling center to get it recycled.

Buy goods from shops that allow you to return its bottles whenever you’re done with it. They are the producers, and believe us, they know how to recycle those packaging better than we all do.

Happy Green Living!

The Coca Cola Co. has awarded $400,000 to Michigan State University’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources to help establish a “think tank” for green packaging as their green steps.

The new Center for Packaging Innovation and Sustainability will be located at the MSU School of Packaging, and researchers there will study ways to measure and reduce the environmental impact of how products are packaged.

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5 Baby Steps to Go Green

1000 Green Steps understand that a lot of you felt that going green needs a process and there could be so much information about what you should be doing. With that much freaking-you-out information, it might seem simpler to just do nothing! But you can try these 5 baby steps to start going green.

1. Buy a reusable drinking bottle

Check out this cool I’m Not a Paper Cup drinking bottle and have your drink in style! Yes, I’m a Porcelain Cup with a Silicone Lid! Available online at Amazon for $15.99.

2. Stop littering

In case you don’t know how to do it, 1000 Green Steps will guide you with a step-by-step post on how to stop littering post

3. Turn your light and AC off when you leave your room

Remember, the more you do it, the more electricity bill you’ll save.

4. Don’t let your water faucet drips

1000 Green Steps have mentioned this step too much and we know it will be so much trouble if you let it drips and see your house is filled with water (and dripping water bills, too).

5. When you travel, consider having an eco-tourism

See Eco-tourism guide in my previous article entitled Step 55: Eco-tourism, a Green Way to Travel. We hope you have a nice journey

So simple, so doable. Take baby steps now, and get back when you’re ready to follow 1000 Green Steps guide through Step 52: 3 Steps to Turn Your Business Green and Step 53: 3 Green Steps at Home.

Happy Green Living!

Motorola Moto W23 Renew

After having Solar Powered Cell Phone by Samsung, this week’s cool gadget comes from Motorola through The Motorola MOTO W233 Renew as their green steps. If Samsung makes their green steps by producing a solar powered cell phone, Motorola was able to beat them all out by producing a cell phone that is made from recycled plastic, 100% recyclable materials, comes with eco-friendly packaging, RoHS compliant, and comes with a postage-paid envelope so whenever you’re done with them you don’t have to worry about how are you going to recycle its 100% recyclable materials. You know what? YOU CAN SEND THEM BACK TO THE FACTORY TO BE RECYCLED! This is what you call a 100% green cell phone (it’s literally green, though).

This amazing gadget is available online at Amazon starting from $9.99

Happy Green Living!

In a nod to the up-and-coming field of green packaging, the Kellogg Co. is testing a new cereal box that uses 8% less material, reports Ad Age as their green steps program.

The new box:

• uses 8% less material
• packages the same amount of cereal
• saves space on store shelves and home pantries
• could help Kellogg cut costs and reduce its carbon footprint

The company will be testing the new box design in the Detroit area over the next six months.

More green packaging news is available here.

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