Kim Perry is a Texas mother of two from Lubbock. She says her family feels there’s no reason not to go green. After all, she says recycling is one of the easiest ways to make a difference. "Every Saturday morning we kind of have a routine. We try to fix breakfast and have some family time. But, always in there, we're collecting all the recycling and we take it and the kids help me sort it, It's just a part of what we do on Saturdays now," Perry says.

Perry also says it’s important to keep things simple. The Perry’s never pre-sort things, they do that when they get to the recycling center. All it really takes is having one place in the home to put all those reusable treasures. "We are one, tiny little family on this planet, but it's something that we can do together. And that's what I hope, that my kids understand how important it is that we take care of our little part. Because if every family did that, just taking care of their little part, then that would be magnified times the whole world," Perry adds.

It's going to take more Texas families make the difference. Texans produce about 28-million tons of trash each year and about half of that comes from our homes. In fact the average American produces a little over four pounds of trash each day.