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Celebrate Earth Day

with New Habits

MONTANA HAS IMPROVED WAYS TO REDUCE,

REUSE, AND RECYCLE ACROSS THE STATE

BY CHELsEA PAsCHALL

This April 22 marks the 51st anniversary
of Earth Day, an event conceived by Senator
Gaylord Nelson after the world saw Earth
from the moon for the first time. President
Nixon soon supported the establishment
of the Environmental Protection Agency,
Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and national
reclamation laws based on Montana’s own
newly passed laws.
Celebrating the planet and our relation
to nature surpassed politics, and many folks
born thereafter can hardly imagine a river
catching fire or seeing someone intention-
ally litter on a roadway.
Today, there are new considerations as
we look across our open lands in Montana
and live in an increasingly connected world.
Despite the challenges of living in a
rural state, the “3R’s”—Reduce, Reuse, Montana has had a lot of success with the three “R’s”—Renew, Reuse, Recycle—and that success continues
to grow across the state. Growth in recycling household materials and compost opportunities have made
and Recycle—are daily choices we can it possible and easier than ever for more households to minimize their waste. © Wavebreak Media Ltd,
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all make to minimize our waste and There’s also what many consider
conserve resources. thrift—using a skillet passed on for gen-
One can reduce waste, for example, by erations or setting aside baby clothes for
letting restaurants know when you don’t relatives and neighbors.
need plastic utensils for to-go orders. Recycling is a bit more challenging and
takes community
effort alongside
personal actions.
Instead of becom-
Flower ing waste, materials

are redirected into
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