Many people know that if you use plastic shopping bags at the grocery store, it's easy to bring them back to the supermarket and deposit them in recycling bins. But did you know you can also recycle other types of plastic bags and film in those same bins? The large plastic wraps on new mattresses and furniture can be recycled, as can dry cleaning bags and the plastic wrap on items like toilet paper rolls and napkins. And here's the best part: Even bubble wrap can be placed in those recycling bins. Just pop the bubbles so it doesn't fill up the bin prematurely.

Have a musky leather coat that you would like to freshen and make smell like new? Since you can’t toss it into the washing machine, and expert dry cleaning can be very expensive, give this natural trick a try instead: Use the sun. On a bright, sunny day, turn the coat inside out and lay it on a large towel in a sunny spot for several hours. The natural ultraviolet rays from the sun will eradicate odor-causing bacteria, and inverting it will protect the leather from fading. You can also place the coat in an airtight storage box with a bowl of baking soda in the box. The baking soda will absorb odors naturally over the course of a week.

Filtering water at home has become easier with a variety of at-home filtration systems, helping us kick the bottled water habit for good. But while we know filtered water is good for us to drink, have you thought about using it in your fish tanks? Tap water can have high levels of chlorine and ammonia, which are often used in water treatment plants. This can change the PH levels of the water, which affects the quality of living for fish. Using filtered water in fish tanks can go a long way toward giving our aquatic friends a healthy, long and happy life.