Everyday Green Changes

Skip the single-use brown bags and plastic baggies and instead opt for a reusable lunch box and sturdy, washable containers.

Bring your own bottle (of water). Ninety percent of plastic water bottles end up in landfills. Refilling your own reusable bottle is an easy way to go green every day.

When printing essays and reports, print on both sides and choose paper made with post-consumer recycled content.

If you can, walk or bike to and from school each day with your kids. If it’s just too far, take the bus, use public transportation or arrange a carpool.

Before stocking up on school essentials, consider the supplies that you already have. Binders, folders, pens and pencils don’t have a shelf life, so take inventory and use what’s already yours.