You’ve been greening your house by installing solar panels on your roof, you’ve been greening your workplace by recycling and reusing old paper, you’ve greened your car by buying a Prius, you’ve been greening your entire life, sometimes without knowing why. You have green up to your eyeballs. With all these changes in your life, do you even know if you’ve actually helped the environment?

The products you buy may be considered “green”, but is the manufacturing of those items green? In many cases, no.

Many of the green products you buy actually produce more waste into the environment than the product saves over a period of 1, 5, or even 10 years. So in actuality, you’re not any more green than before, the only thing that has changed is where the pollution comes from.

The cost to produce some of these “green” products are higher than average because the technologies behind them are more complex.

Until these green products are produced using renewable energy, we will not see a decrease in the overall pollution of a product.

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