2) Reuse before recycle. Remember that using the same things over again, spares the environment more than recycling. Use your cardboard boxes for storage (or a kid's playhouse), your dressing bottles for your own home-made dressing. Jam jars work as rustic ice-tea glasses, Tin coffee cans can be used for bulk items like sugar, rice and flour. 

3) Have a yard sale, what you would otherwise take to the dump, someone might actually pay you for. 

4) Change your bulbs. Instead of incandescent light bulbs, use compact fluorescent bulbs. An easy thing to do, that will benefit both your wallet and the environment in the long run. 

5) Raise the temperature in your fridge a notch. The rear upper part of your fridge is the coldest, lower front the warmest. 

6) Buy recycled. Ask for recycled paper products in your local store if they are not available. Choose recycled, and recyclable materials whenever you can. 

7) Make a swing. An old tire makes a great swing for a kid, and makes one less tire that becomes waste. 

8) Share with the neighbors. Agree with the neighbors that if they buy the lawnmower, to share, you buy the weed whacker or garden tiller. 

9) Say no thanks, to a plastic or paper bag when you purchase only one or a couple of items. Bananas are clustered together and already in its packaging, why another bag???