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!