9/9/10

Just because it's free, doesn't mean you need to take it. Think twice before taking free magazines (in flight, hotel rooms), gifts with purchase (at the beauty counter, for example), or some kind of in-store promotion with giveaways. If you truly need it, please take it and enjoy it. But if it's something you clearly will never use, don't add more junk to your home and leave the freebies behind.

9/8/10

The beauty industry often packages their products in tubs, jars and tubes that are not usually picked up in curbside recycling programs. Origins (a division of Estee Lauder) is working to address this problem by accepting all beauty products' plastic packaging in their stores and their participating department store counters for recycling. It can be any brand and any type of plastic that once held a cosmetic product.

9/7/10

Staying hydrated by drinking fresh, clean water when you're traveling can be difficult; you might even want to break open your hotel room fridge to fetch a bottle of water when you're thirsty. Instead, carry a reusable water bottle with you when you travel and fill it up with free water. You'll often find it inside the hotel's gym. Just because you aren't planning to run a 5K on the treadmill doesn't mean you can't pop in to fill up your bottle.