Now I live in San Francisco downtown area. After I came to San Francisco, I found that restaurants and shopping malls in my environment seriously leave different kinds of waste into different kinds of garbage bins.
We also have different groups of people respond on difference kinds of garbage too. It makes me realize that I separately trash different kinds of stuff into the right garbage bin.
It’s better to understand the kind of materials that enter and leave your home, office, or school, consider conducting a waste audit. Separate your waste categories. Weigh the different kinds of material flows that go out the door (landfill waste, organic compost, aluminum, recyclable plastic, reusable material, etc.).
One day I bought some snacks from Walgreen nearby my place, when I paid for my stuffs; a cashier put my stuffs into the green bag and told me that I could reuse it the next shopping. I felt agree to use that bag because I knew that I could decrease plastic garbage to save environment. After that I always put my purchased stuffs into my own bag instead of getting a new one.
I also use a water filter and reusable container to reduce disposable plastic bottles. I start doing this after I got information from the internet that we could recycle 100 bottles/second but we discarded 840 bottles/second. Can you imagine how much is it? I feel that it’s not too hard to bring water from home instead of buy a new bottle. We can reduce plastic bottle to save the environment and also save money.
I reduce my electricity use by unplug my cell phone charger, TV and other electronics whenever I do not use them because the energy is wasted when they are plugged in and on standby. The process can be made easier if you have everything plugged into a surge protector with its own switch. I turn off lights and other energy-sucking devices when they are not being used. If I leave my computer for a while, put it on stand-by, I will be able to restart it quickly in order to use less energy than shutting it down and then restarting it.
In holiday season, I always give a gift certificate or buy a green service like a Zipcar membership or find items that are made or grown locally, items manufactured from recycled materials, durable items that will not be trashed soon.
There are so many ways to go green. You can start to preserve the limited amount of natural resources that we have today, so that the earth can continue to provide. Please help us saving energy, reduce garbage landfills that growing beyond capacity, and reduce pollution that emission greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It’s the way that we can against global warming. Just do it for yourself and someone that you love. Start from today, it’s not hard as you think.
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