About recycling: I'm guilty that I'm not a Earth conscious person. Don't preach to me how important the Earth is. I know, in my own apathetic way. While I am careful about what I put in water, or the air, I've not thought myself much of a recycle conscious type. We have a recycle program in my town, but I don't know how to use it. And it seems too cumbersome to participate in. When I'm at Wholefoods for lunch, it's too time consuming to read the rather detailed instructions about what bin to throw what in. I'm sure I make mistakes with that. But after confessing all of my recycle shame, and after thinking about it I've realized that I have not purchased plastic garbage bags in many many years. I reuse grocery bags for the garbage and even use them for lunch. I don't purchase plastic sandwich/lunch bags either. I reuse the grocery store vegetable/fruit bags. I reuse all plastic food containers for re-storing food. I wash laundry in cold water and I air dry about 60% of my laundry. I reuse old worn out dish sponges on car cleaning or cleaning the bathroom before they're finally tossed in the garbage. I have yard sales to recycle stuff I don't want anymore and I make a couple of bucks doing it. And I've sent clothes I don't wear anymore back home to my sisters and mom to sift through. So, while I may not see myself as an ecology-minded person, I find in my admitted frugality that I do help out in small ways. And you probably do too when you think about it.