“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” The three “R’s” are not created equal. Yes, we should do all three, but if we focus on the first, we won’t have to haul 70 cans of garbage to the street. (Huh?! Read on…)

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By Heather Gates

Automated trash service begins with the New Year, making our old trash cans obsolete for their original purpose. Although the city has a dumpster available for us to dispose of our old cans, instead of sending your cans to the landfill, consider some ways to turn your trash can into other useful things.

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By Melissa Zietz

Composting isn’t just a summer activity. And your composter can digest more than leaves, grass clippings, and kitchen scraps.

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The Natural Step Monona members share their “slightly (or not-so-slightly) non-traditional things they do to be more sustainable.”

This is about one-tenth of the things members shared. We’ll compile another list of quirky ideas in the future.

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By Natural Stepper Kate Heiber-Cobb

Why we should use our leaves as the vital resource they are, instead of hauling them away.

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Not quite Keats, this Ode on a Compost Bin is a fun way to learn why composting is such good thing to do. Try your hand at rhyming “thermophilic bacteria.”

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