Monthly Archives: August 2009

Green Tips for Back to School

By admin on August 19, 2009

It’s almost time to send the kids back to school so we here at Buy-Rash-Guards thought we’d pass along some green tips you can use at school:

  1. Use both sides of your paper and recycle what you do use. Almost half of all school waste comes from paper and the average school throws out 38 tons of paper per year – that’s equivalent to about 266 trees – from EVERY SCHOOL!
  2. Pack a waste free lunch. Stop with the plastic bags, disposable containers and plastic utensils already! Remember the good old fashioned lunch box?!? Use a reusable lunchbox, reusable drink containers, cloth napkins and silverware.
  3. Use refillable pens. Believe it or not there was a time, (not too long ago), when there weren’t disposable pens and buying those little refill thingys was a common practice. Every year we toss out 1.6 BILLION pens – enough to stretch across the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles to Tokyo 25 TIMES!

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Let’s Pass the Beach Bill

By admin on August 3, 2009

The US House of Representatives has passed the Clean Coastal Environment and Public Health Act. Urge your senators to do the same. A new beach bill is long overdue!

You can take action on this alert via the web at:
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/pass_beachbill/ix53xex42j7xm6wx?

The Clean Coastal Environment & Public Health Act of 2009 will increase the amount of federal dollars that can be spent on beach water quality monitoring and will modernize the technology we rely on to protect the health of the beach-going public. It also expands the scope of the BEACH Act to include tracking and cleaning up the sources of beach water pollution. The House of Representatives has passed this bill twice now, but it has not yet seen the Senate floor.

We here at Buy Rash Guards encourage you to take action – Let’s Pass the Beach Bill!

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