http://blog.epa.gov/students/2012/08/back-to-school-going-green/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=back-to-school-going-green An Environmental Blog for Students Mon, 20 May 2013 14:27:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.epa.gov/students/2012/08/back-to-school-going-green/#comment-1248 M. Downs Wed, 08 May 2013 15:06:16 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/students/?p=674#comment-1248 I love that ideas that are presented in this article are really cool. My environmental science class with did an entire project about reduce, reuse, and recycle. Although I see what the objective of this article is, I believe that it would be more beneficial by reducing waste at the source rather than beginning from the reusing stage. If you begin at the reusing the products that one already has, it is just prolonging the lifespan of the object before it enters the waste stream. If one reduces that amount of non-durable product, it would reduce the amount of waste in the waste stream. Recycling is the worse form of ridding of waste. Recycling takes a large amount of energy to clean and remold on object into another object. So I like how the majority, if not all, of the ideas you mentioned stuck with reusing products from the previous school year.

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