Most of the ingredients for nontoxic cleaners are in your kitchen now or can be easily found in the supermarket, natural food store or pharmacy. These recipes are nontoxic to the environment and easy on your pocketbook.

Green Christmas Decoration

If you are at all artistic or crafty it can be great fun to make your own Christmas decorations, cards and stocking fillers. Here are a few ideas.

Pine cones can be "improved" with a little paint, glitter or artificial snow. Just attach a small piece of ribbon with some hot glue.

Homemade Christmas decorations such as stars and moons can be made for your tree with standard play dough or construction paper. Use cookie cutters or stencils for shapes. Be Creative!

Recycling Drop-off Containers

At various times throughout the year it has come to the attention of Clean Green Rush that the recycling containers located next to Kroger and the Sheriff’s back garage are being used to dispose of non recyclable garbage (i.e. lawn furniture, dirty diapers, wax faced cardboard, paper plates & utensils, styrofoam, used hamster bedding, etc). Dumping non-recyclable products (garbage and trash) into the recycling containers takes up valuable space for legitimately recyclable materials. As you may have noticed, the recycling containers are emptied three times a week yet are often overflowing with material. Eliminating non-recyclable materials in these containers will not only open up more space, but it will also reduce sorting and processing costs. Garbage and other non-recyclable items contaminates the collection and all of the contents become trash and increases costs, Because this is paid by your tax dollars, keeping costs low is critical to keeping the service place.