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Managing Your Rubbish and Saving The Environment

Managing Your Rubbish and Saving The Environment

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Managing Your

Rubbish and

Saving

The

Environment

Reduce Paper Usage •  Golden Rule: Think before you print

•  Avoid printing unnecessary copies of documents

•  When printing, go double-sided

•  Utilize soft copies instead of hard copies

Bring Your Own Container •  Single-use food and beverage packaging������

•  Major source of 269,000 tons of plastic pollution floating around the world’s oceans.

Bring Your Own Container •  Invest in a good bottle

•  Use cooler bags and reusable containers instead of plastic and polystyrene containers

Opt for Cloth Instead of Plastic Bags

•  Greatly reduces amount of junk generated

•  Plan ahead; keep the reusable bags in handy places, like your kitchen, car, work bag, going out bag.

Donate Items •  One man’s junk may be another man’s treasure

•  Once a year, indulge in spring cleaning

Donate Items •  Donate any unnecessary excess items (clothes, functioning gadgets, etc)

•  Local charities, community centers, UNICEF

•  Recycle clothes at H&M

Rinse Before You Recycle •  Rinse what you recycle; bottles, tin cans, plastic containers

•  Recycling facilities would greatly appreciate materials to be in a cleaner form for easier processing and sorting.

Rinse Before You Recycle •  Easy for plastics to be contaminated

•  Residue from labels can alter its chemistry and affect quality of recycled material

•  That’s why there are robust cleaning processes in place

•  Save excess energy generation!

From an Article by iPrice

With Pictures from Pixabay