down. During a rainy season, the water makes it's way to the moisture and is pushed towards the nearest lake, river or large body of water.

Then, knowing how the weather systems work, most of those chemicals, now polluting the lake, make it's way up to the sky in a condensation form. If it doesn't go up, it's going to kill everything in the lake anyway. Here's the worse part--it might not be biodegradable, even if

Many communities around the world are encouraging all of us to start recycling, so that we can reduce the amount of trash in our landfills. We're being told to go green by driving less and take public transit. We're even being told to choose products that are green friendly, yet they're not super-concentrated; so when that product gets used up, it's extra packaging that goes into the recycling bin, month after month after month. Then there's the term Biodegradable.

Here's something that we also should never overlook: the types of cleaners we're using.

Let's put it this way; if you can't put it on your skin because it's corrisve or dangerous, why should we have to put it down our drain?

Think of this cycle; You buy a cleaner from the store and bring it home. You've already exposed yourself to the seeping formaldehyde from the product. If you can smell it, you're only detecting a small portion of this. In fact, it's going straight into the atmosphere while you're walking. If you're driving, it's already polluting your car.

Then, you use that cleaning product, let's say an oven cleaner, and wait for it to do it's job. Already, your oven is "cleaned" of the baked on charred sticky foods. It looks clean, but do you sense the gas produced by the cleaner? Can you take some sort of microscope and observe what's left on the surface at a molecular level?

And what happens with the residue from cleaning that oven? Many people dispose of it either down the drain or into their backyard. Then what happens is that the chemical poison makes it's way down the soil (already, the nutrients are burned by the chemical reactions) and eventually finds a moist stream down. During a rainy season, the water makes it's way to the moisture and is pushed towards the nearest lake, river or large body of water.

Then, knowing how the weather systems work, most of those chemicals, now polluting the lake, make it's way up to the sky in a condensation form. If it doesn't go up, it's going to kill everything in the lake anyway. Here's the worse part--it might not be biodegradable, even if t

month. Then there's the term Biodegradable.

Here's something that we also should never overlook: the types of cleaners we're using.

Let's put it this way; if you can't put it on your skin because it's corrisve or dangerous, why should we have to put it down our drain?

Think of this cycle; You buy a cleaner from the store and bring it home. You've already exposed yourself to the seeping formaldehyde from the product. If you can smell it, you're only detecting a small portion of this. In fact, it's going straight into the atmosphere while you're walking. If you're driving, it's already polluting your car.

Then, you use that cleaning product, let's say an oven cleaner, and wait for it to do it's job. Already, your oven is "cleaned" of the baked on charred sticky foods. It looks clean, but do you sense the gas produced by the cleaner? Can you take some sort of microscope and observe what's left on the surface at a molecular level?

And what happens with the residue from cleaning that oven? Many people dispose of it either down the drain or into their backyard. Then what happens is that the chemical poison makes it's way down the soil (already, the nutrients are burned by the chemical reactions) and eventually finds a moist stream down. During a rainy season, the water makes it's way to the moisture and is pushed towards the nearest lake, river or large body of water.

Then, knowing how the weather systems work, most of those chemicals, now polluting the lake, make it's way up to the sky in a condensation form. If it doesn't go up, it's going to kill everything in the lake anyway. Here's the worse part--it might not be biodegradable, even if

he product. If you can smell it, you're only detecting a small portion of this. In fact, it's going straight into the atmosphere while you're walking. If you're driving, it's already polluting your car.

Then, you use that cleaning product, let's say an oven cleaner, and wait for it to do it's job. Already, your oven is "cleaned" of the baked on charred sticky foods. It looks clean, but do you sense the gas produced by the cleaner? Can you take some sort of microscope and observe what's left on the surface at a molecular level?

And what happens with the residue from cleaning that oven? Many people dispose of it either down the drain or into their backyard. Then what happens is that the chemical poison makes it's way down the soil (already, the nutrients are burned by the chemical reactions) and eventually finds a moist stream down. During a rainy season, the water makes it's way to the moisture and is pushed towards the nearest lake, river or large body of water.

Then, knowing how the weather systems work, most of those chemicals, now polluting the lake, make it's way up to the sky in a condensation form. If it doesn't go up, it's going to kill everything in the lake anyway. Here's the worse part--it might not be biodegradable, even if

d by the cleaner? Can you take some sort of microscope and observe what's left on the surface at a molecular level?

And what happens with the residue from cleaning that oven? Many people dispose of it either down the drain or into their backyard. Then what happens is that the chemical poison makes it's way down the soil (already, the nutrients are burned by the chemical reactions) and eventually finds a moist stream down. During a rainy season, the water makes it's way to the moisture and is pushed towards the nearest lake, river or large body of water.

Then, knowing how the weather systems work, most of those chemicals, now polluting the lake, make it's way up to the sky in a condensation form. If it doesn't go up, it's going to kill everything in the lake anyway. Here's the worse part--it might not be biodegradable, even if

down. During a rainy season, the water makes it's way to the moisture and is pushed towards the nearest lake, river or large body of water.

Then, knowing how the weather systems work, most of those chemicals, now polluting the lake, make it's way up to the sky in a condensation form. If it doesn't go up, it's going to kill everything in the lake anyway. Here's the worse part--it might not be biodegradable, even if the product's packaging says so!

Those toxic chemicals form into some sort of concoction up in the sky and wherever the influence of the atmosphere blows, so will the direction of that concoction. That concoction will also include the exhaust toxins from automobiles and other things not good for the earth.

When this concoction makes it's way to the North Pole, because of the effects of heating and cooling - depending on the earth's rotation and timing, parts of the ozone layer depletes because of the chemical reaction. Thus, opening a hole in the layer and allowing more UV rays from the sun to cut through and melt the glaciers. Slowly but surely.

It's great that we are all going green, and that is an important thing to consider, but we have to remember that it all starts at home. If we can't read the chemicals and know what they are, or if the company that makes them won't give out much information, start questioning your choice of products.

Many diseases are caused by toxic cleaners. And if it makes you sick, you can be that it will make the earth sick too.

Biodegrable is a term that is just about everywhere. But what is very strange is that the term is put on products that will take almost a century to biodegrade! Plastic bags, for example, that carry the Biodegradable term are not actually biodegradable, are they?

The same should go with your cleaners. If they are not friendly to the planet, why use them?

Those same toxins from those cleaners eventually make their way into our vegetation, our food and believe it or not, our meat.

How does it get into our meat? Think about it. Those farm animals have to eat the same vegetati