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Being green has become very popular these days. So, you wanna go green? And you have a lot of paper around your home? Here's how to reuse it without recycling it.

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    Use both sides. When writing, drawing, or printing something, use the other side before throwing it away or recycling it.
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    Crafts. Find a paper craft off of the internet and try creating a craft with paper you have already used.
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    Junk mail. Instead of shredding junk mail, give it to your child to draw or color on.
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    Pack packages. Use that old paper to pack packages that you are going to send off soon.
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    Sprinkle shredded paper into a compost bin. If you've started composting your food scraps, you may have noticed that stuff inside the bin can get a bit goopy-especially if your ratio of green-to-brown matter is a bit off. To dry things up, sprinkle some of the paper from your shredder into the compost pile, and stir it up. Once the shredded paper brings the moisture level down, decomposition will speed up. If you don't have a shredder, you can physically rip it to pieces.
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