Keeping our homes clean can be mundane and time consuming. Much of the work seems redundant but is still necessary to the health and well being of our family. I really do like a clean house so I’m always on the look out for products that make it easier and faster. I also want products that are good for the environment. Besides our grandchildren who pop in and out on a regular basis, there’s only two of us living in our house. I’m surprised every day with the amount of trash the two of us throw out. The fact is … people throw a lot of trash out every single day. Unless you have an incinerator in your backyard … you’re like us. Contributors to local landfills, also known as the local dump.
Land Fill Facts:
- The average American discards 4.34 pounds of garbage every day (EPA Facts and Figures). Does that mean that a family of four discards over 15 pounds of garbage everyday?
- The total volume of solid waste produced in the U.S. each year is equal to the weight of more than 5,600 Nimitz Class air craft carriers, 247,000 space shuttles, or 2.3 million Boeing 747 jumbo jets.
- If we put all of the solid waste collected in the U.S. in a line of average garbage trucks, that line of trucks could cross the country, extending from New York City to Los Angeles, more than 100 times.
We try our best to use environmentally friendly products at our house. Products that are reusable and recycable. We have products that we love and have been using for years. Windex in one such product. I’ve been using it since I first married thirty-five years ago. And … my mom used it before that. Windex has stepped up to the environmentally friendly plate with the new Windex Mini. Windex Mini is a small pouch of concentrated liquid that will seriously fit in your pocket.
Windex Mini:
- Requires 90% less plastic than a standard 26 fl. oz. trigger bottle.
- Avoids transporting 22.4 fl. oz. of water – nearly 1.5 pounds by weight.
Simply pour the Windex concentrate into a 26 oz spray bottle, add tap water and there you have it. A bottle of Windex you carried home from the market in your pocket! Well not really. But you could have if you wanted to. The empty concentrate pouch is a whole lot smaller than an empty spray bottle in our landfills. And the world can now be a wee bit greener.
Giveaway!
We have a Windex Mini starter kit for one lucky winner!
Congratulations to #43 Diane the winner of this giveaway!
No monetary compensation was provided for this post however we did receive a product sample through Family Review Network. All thoughts and opinions expressed are our own.
Kathy Bradshaw says
I sure would like to win the Windex Mini!! I clean my windows daily to watch the birds in our feeders.
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
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I try to use products the are free and clear of chemicals.
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Patty White says
We buy all natural products and recycle just about everything!!
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I recycle and try to reuse anything i cant recycle
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We use cloth diapers and reusable shopping bags
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Gena says
I’m learning… I have started reusing anything I can. Starter making greener products to use at home.
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I tweeted about this giveaway today 9/8.
TheBargainBabe says
To be green at our house, well I don’t often use paper towels and we try to buy quality toys for our children instead of TONS of mass produced junk. And we shop yardsales for toys and clothes, buying gently used decreases the demand for factories to produce and ship new stuff.
Thanks for a chance to win the windex!
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Marilyn Wons says
At out house we use no toxic chemicals in our cleaning products. We use only organic!
Laura says
My toddler loves to help sort the recycling!
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We recycle a lot.
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WE RECYCLE, PLASTICS, GLASS AND PAPER
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Maria Gabriel says
We recycle a lot and unplug all electronics when not in use.
Ani G W says
We use our electricity wisely. We use reuseable shopping bags. We do a lot of other things as well.
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Diane Baum says
I ‘m growing a garden, using only green cleaning products and recycling.
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We recycle everything that we possibly can.
Becky says
We make sure to recycle all we can, and we try to buy things that are recycleable..
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I use CFL light bulbs in most of our fixtures. We recycle all of our paper/cardboard/plastic household items that we can.
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We recycle cans and bottles and buy recycled paper fo the printer
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we recycle everything!!!
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Our part to help being green is to recycle everything that we can!
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