Energy Conservation Project Overview

For my energy conservation project, I'm going to research the amount of plastic bags my wife and I generate weekly and how many bags we contribute to the Anchorage landfill each week. We are already avid recyclers in Anchorage - No. 1 and No. 2 plastics, newspapers, tin cans and mixed paper.

I believe, however, throwing away good plastic bags is a habit I can break to cut down on the waste. Some questions and facts I will be researching are:

• How much money will I save by reusing sandwich and freezer bags? Will it make a dent in my budget?
• Reusablebags.com, an all-you-need-to-know Web site on how to reduce your impact, resuse what you've got and recycle your plastic. It's message is using the four R's: reduce, reuse, recycle and react. It's a user-friendly Web site and I'm looking forward to researching it.
• I will keep a daily log on what I did to reduce and reuse (sandwich bags, freezer bags).
• I will tally each plastic bag and compare it to the amount of plastic bags an average person uses in a week.