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450 years to break down. By
what can and can’t be recycled.
carrying a reusable bottle, or
a reusable bottle with a filter
4) Limit your plastic
we will significantly reduce the
consumption: Look for everyday
environmental impact of bottle
items and food products that
water.
don’t contain plastic packaging.
Instead of buying the bananas
3) Recycle
from the store covered in plastic,
Everything
buy the ones with no packaging.
you can:
Buying food in bulk from co-ops
Landfill is
is another great way to reduce
reaching a
your plastic and packaging
tipping point
consumption. Bring your own
worldwide.
mason jars to the store and fill
There is
up. It’s cheaper for you and better
not enough
for the environment.
space for us
to dispose of
5) Save electricity: just by
our rubbish
turning all our unused electrical
healthily and
sockets to the ‘off’ position and
we therefore
switching appliances off instead
need to
of leaving them in the ‘standby’
recycle as
mode we can save between
much as
20- 40% on our electricity bill
possible.
and usage. That’s an incredible
Separate
savings and reduction in coal
waste into individual bins within
usage. Unplug appliances that
your household and get your
are not in use and switch the
family in the habit of knowing
usage of hot water systems and
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