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BY ELSA WENZEL

No-Brainer Choices

From baby’s bottom to your chocolate addiction,
there are easy ways to live less wastefully.

THERE’S NO REASON to sacrifice comfort when trying to do some good for your family, body, and home as well as the planet. In fact, earth-friendly alternatives are often more luxurious than their conventional counterparts. This spring, whether you’re sprucing up your home, planning a grand wedding, or hosting a simple picnic, check out these easy, greener choices.

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Disposable gDiapers are diapers fl ushable.

Cloth is the best diapering choice, but if you opt for disposable, choose these flushable ones. Conventional disposables make up 5 percent of landfill waste, and they’re a mess to dispose of at home.

Your current cell phone service

Earth Tones offers Buying the trendiest, month-to-month calling smartest phone of the plans and gives away season adds to the all profits to environ- world’s piles of toxic mental groups. Mail old electronics waste. handsets to ReCellular _{for recycling.} I _{Read 8 more alternatives}

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