Everyone can do their bit to help
protect natural resources.
Useful
websites:
Some interesting
facts:
- 1 recycled plastic bottle would save enough
energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours.
- Up to 60% of the rubbish that ends up in the
dustbin could be recycled.
- Each tonne of recycled paper can save 17
trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 KW
of energy and 7000 gallons of water.
- On average every person in the UK throws away
their own body weight in rubbish every seven weeks.
- Incinerating 10,000 tonnes of waste creates
one job, land-filling the same amount of waste creates six jobs but
recycling this much waste creates 36 jobs.
Reduce, reuse and recycle
tips:
1. Put your
recycling bin or bags next to your dustbin; that way it
is just as easy to recycle as to throw it away.
2. Do you always
seem to end up with hundreds of plastic bags? Why not buy
reusable ones (available from most supermarkets) and leave them in
your car so they are to hand when you do the weekly shop.
3. If you have
old mobile phones lying around, unused in drawers, consider
recycling them. Many organisations will even pay you or donate
money to charity on your behalf.
4. Switch off
your computer monitor when not in use. Even if only for 10
minutes. Your monitor uses twice the energy of your PC.
5. Use the stairs
rather than taking the lift. Not only will you be reducing
energy usage but increasing your fitness.
6. Switch off
your mobile phone charger when it is finished charging. If you
don't it will keep drawing almost as much energy as when charging
and you will generate 35-70 kg of avoidable CO2 each year. In
fact 95% of the energy used by mobile phone chargers in the UK is
wasted energy.
