green your kitchen

• Reuse glass jars: Glass jars are great for transporting soups, smoothies, and other liquids to work. No more exploding plastic containers! Use them to store rice, pasta, crackers, and nuts in the pantry.
• Take the no paper towel challenge! Use one cloth towel for counters and another for clean dishes. Once either is spoiled by perishables, just toss it in the laundry and grab a clean one. Your wallet and our nations’ forests will thank you.
• Try a multitasking soap, such as Dr. Bronner’s all-one soap. Its gallon jugs, made of 100 percent post-consumer recycled materials, are actually less expensive than the smaller bottles, and can be used on everything from your dishes to your body to your laundry.
• Reuse old bottles: Keep old squeeze bottles from your kitchen to use as bottles for your hair-care and cosmetic needs. Plastic salad dressing and cooking-oil bottles can be cleaned and refilled with soap, lotion, or shampoo.