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Troy's Community Newsletter
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Ten things you can do to help keep our river clean . . .
- Use sand instead of salt on driveways and walkways in winter.
- Try to use up household cleaning products. Give unwanted chemicals to friends who can use then but never dump excess products on the ground, into catch basins, or down household or storm drains where they will be carried to local waters.
- Clean with nontoxic items such as baking soda, salt, vinegar, ammonia and elbow grease, instead of bathroom and kitchen cleaners.
- Recycle kitchen scraps by composting. Do not use garbage disposals; they contribute unneccessary solids and grease to your septic system.
- Plant ground cover, trees and shrubs over bare patches and at the borders of lots. Rainwater flowing off your property picks up and carries contaminants to nearby surface waters.
- Avoid getting pesticides and fertilizers on sidewalks or drive ways; they can wash into storm drains.
- Use organic nutrients in the form of composted vegetable scraps, grass cuttings and leaves. Grass cuttings should be left on the lawn to recycle nutrients.
- Water lawns before 10am or after 4pm, and avoid watering on hot windy days. One inch of watering per week should satisfy your lawn. To measure how much water is applied, put a coffee can in the area being watered; check it each half hour or so to see how long it takes to accumulate one inch.
- Use a low-phosphate or phosphate-free laundry detergent.
- Before you toss six-pack holders in the garbage, snip each circle with scissors.
Source: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Save The Earth.
In cooperation with Troy United Ink Corp., a not-for-profit corporation
Items published herein do not necessarily represent the opinions of Troy United Ink Corp., its officers or it's Board of Directors.
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