Pamper Your Planet!

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Enjoy mud baths and sea-salt scrubs? This Earth Day, help us give the planet a little spa treatment of its own. Whether you want to nurture the birds and bugs that share your backyard or help heal rain forests and oceans across the globe, you can protect wildlife and wild places with your everyday actions. Join the Wildlife Conservation Society in our commitment to making the world a greener place by practicing these Earth-friendly suggestions.

• Support green legislation.
  By voicing your support for the Bigger Better Bottle Bill—a win-win solution for New York and its environment that would save tax dollars, reduce greenhouse emissions, and help keep our communities clean—you’ll become part of the WCS community of planet Earth activists.
  
  
• Cell phones don’t grow on trees. But recycling them helps trees grow!
  Deposit your old cell phones in the EcoCell bins located at the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, Queens Zoo, and New York Aquarium. The coltan contained in the batteries will be recycled, reducing the demand to mine this element in the forests of Congo, where many endangered wildlife species live.
  
  
• Transform your trash!
  Help reduce our waste stream by finding creative ways to recycle your trash. Grow a plant in an empty milk carton, use old magazine pages for gift wrapping, or turn a coffee can into a canister for crayons and brushes. Get inspired by participating in recycled crafts activities at the zoos’ and aquarium’s Earth Day parties.
  
  
• Take mass transit.
  Did you know that there are more than 150 million cars in the U.S.? You can help reduce your impact on carbon emissions by leaving your car at home and commuting by train and bus instead. The four WCS zoos and the aquarium are all accessible by public transportation.
  
  
• Become a WCS member.
  By becoming a member, you not only get free admission to all five WCS parks in New York, you also support our worldwide conservation efforts. Your contribution helps make possible more than 300 WCS projects to protect wildlife in more than 50 countries around the globe.
  Join WCS today!

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