Green Living Tips Serving Mesa, Gilbert, Scottsdale & Surrounding Communities

Live Green, And Prosper.

In our everyday lives, we have multiples of many things.

But when it comes to planet earth, there’s only one. The one we share with current and future generations.

That gives each of us a responsibility to treat this most precious of assets with all the TLC we can muster.

At John's Refrigeration, we work hard every day to help you heat and cool your home for less. Here now are several energy saving measures you can employ on your own.

• Make sure all ductwork vent registers are not blocked by furniture.
• Leave all interior doors open at least 2 inches if the room does not have its own return air intake vent.
• Insulate your attic and have your ductwork checked for proper sealing and cracks.
• Install solar screens, awnings, or plants to shade windows and walls during the summer months.
• Keep filters clean and inspect them monthly.
• Insulate your doors and windows…it’s estimated that unsealed windows and doors adds up to a hole about the size of 12 to 20 bricks…can you imagine the loss of warm or cool air in a hole that size?
• Install one or more programmable thermostats so you’re not wasting energy when no one’s at home.

Common Sense Recycling Tips.

We know recycling is beneficial, but here are some facts (some startling) to underscore the importance of doing more.

• About 40% of the waste in the U.S. is paper, but nationwide we recycle only about 25-30% of our paper waste.
• Americans throw away close to the equivalent of 30 million trees a year, just from newsprint alone.
• In America we discard enough motor oil per year to fill 120 supertankers.
• Landfills are filling up and closing at the rate of approximately 2 a day.
• A glass bottle thrown away today will still be there in the year 3000.
• In the United States, one in every six trucks is a garbage truck.
• You would be able to circle the earth 436 times per year with the Styrofoam cups that are used in the United States.
• Recycling a four-foot stack of newspapers saves the equivalent of one 40-foot fir tree.
• One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
• If all morning newspapers read in this country were recycled, 41,000 trees would be saved daily and 6 million tons of waste would never end up in landfills.
• Recycling a soda can saves 96% of the energy used to make a can from ore and produces 95% less air pollution and 97% less water pollution.
• An aluminum can recycled today will be back on the grocery shelf in about 90 days.
• Making new steel products from recycled steel instead of virgin ore reduces water use by 40%, water pollution by 76%, air pollution by 86%, and mining wastes by 97%.
• Making glass from recycled material uses 50% less energy than making virgin glass.

These statistics are accurate…not to mention disturbing. The good news is, of course, there’s a lot still to be done, with tremendous benefits to be shared.

At John’s Refrigeration, we’re doing our part. We encourage you to do yours.

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