Recycling: Think Outside the Can

Small changes to your behavior can have a big impact on the Earth

BY CHRISTY STRAWSER
SPECIAL TO THE FREE PRESS

If Dad's voice still rings in your ear when you leave a room with the lights on -- good. Because switching to compact fluorescent lightbulbs and turning them off in empty rooms is the easiest way to reduce your household's environmental impact.

Joel Wiese of Michigan Energy Options, formerly Urban Options, a nonprofit energy-efficiency consultancy firm in East Lansing, advises everyone to switch from incandescent to CFL. And Wiese's company is making it easy by administering a program for the state that reduces the price of the newest CFL bulbs to 99 cents at ACO and Meijer.

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