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EARTH DAY

Household items you didn’t know could be recycled

From recycling to composting, every resident must to their part to maintain the ongoing Earth Day message

It’s hard to believe how few mechanisms existed before Earth Day began a movement in 1970 with a national call to clean up the environment.

Factories could spew toxic smoke into the atmosphere or even dump waste into nearby streams. None of it was illegal.

Earth Day has made a major impact on environmentalism since.

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