Going Green

The recent "going green" trend has really made me try and be more environmentally conscious. I have been buying organic foods every so often, I have been really good with recycling, and I always keep my eyes open for small changes I can make here and there. Sometimes the whole "going green" idea can be overwhelming and sound really expensive and this is mostly what holds me back from doing more. My next green area I am currently working on is switching to natural household cleaners. As I have been researching natural cleaners, I signed up to receive free products to try out offered by the green office store. I thought this sounded like a good way to be able to test products out so I could find out which products I liked best. I received my first product to try out a few weeks ago. They sent me these Biodegradable Kitchen Trash bags. I liked the idea of the bags that they were biodegradable in a landfill and would not produce harmful chemicals during the process. When I first saw the bags, I thought they seemed thin and was skeptical if they would hold up when they were full of trash. I have been using them for a few weeks and they have held up surprisingly well and have performed just as well as my not so environmentally friendly trash bags. I was also surprised that they are competitively priced with name brand plastic trash bags so would not be a terribly expensive replacement if I decided to start buying them regularly. I hope they keep sending me products and hopefully I can start to integrate more green products into my life.