Top Five Most Commonly Wasted Items

Fresh Produce 

We are very stupid when it comes to keeping our food fresh. Most of the time we throw out good produce because we think it’s rotten when in fact it is still plenty edible. There are two bad things about this habit. One, you are wasting lots of food that could have been made into a tasty dish, and two, you are wasting a whole bunch of money because all you are going to do is go back the grocery store and buy more produce and waste it again. This is a vast cycle of you losing your own hard earned money. Keep all of your produce refrigerated for a longer life span. Make sure all of your produce is in a bag or closed container to make it last longer. If something is pretty close to getting old, make something out of it rather than throwing it out. Americans through out billions of pounds of edible food every year. We don’t want to keep follow in that path.

Plastic Bottles and Soda Cans

Most of the United States offers to pay you $.05 for every bottle or can of a carbonated drink that you recycle. If people recycle all of the bottles and cans that they use then they would actually get a pretty good sum of money. They would also bet helping out the environment. The problem is that many people don’t do this, they just throw out there cans and bottles. When the cans and bottle are thrown out they get buried in land fills and they don’t decompose for years. Last year it was estimated that if all the thrown out cans were collected and recycled that all of the melted down metal could be remade into a dozen B-52 jet planes. That’s pretty amazing if you think about it. And for plastic bottles, they can easily be reused over and over by just washing them out. You can just put them in the dishwasher, take them out and reuse them. But when it comes time that they have gotten too old, then you can recycle them so they can be melted down and be made into more bottles. Recycle, recycle, recycle!