5. Go vegetarian for just one meal this week

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Vegetarian Weeks were all the rage in 2011, but you don’t have to cut out meat for seven days to make a difference. The average American consumes around 250 pounds of meat a year. Eating one vegetarian meal per week will save about 35 pounds of meat a year – that’s 84,000 gallons of water, 245 pounds of grain and 15.5 gallons of gasoline.




SEE: 5 Low-Waste, Skinny Waste Vegetarian Recipes

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