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Our world is beautiful and fragile. It's all we've got. Please look after it. It's so easy to make small changes that help a lot.
#Recycle things.
#Make compost.
#Cycle or bus instead of driving. Or share cars.
#Eat organic, local food..
#Save electricity.
#Get a water butt.
#Use charity shops.
#Use low energy lightbulbs.
#Go vegetarian*.
#Do your laundry with eco-balls**.
#Stop squirting toxic chemicals out of spray cans!!
#Take your own carrier bags when you shop.
#Buy only FSC wooden products.
#Put on a jumper when you're cold.
Helping the health of the planet also helps your own health. WE ALL BENEFIT!
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REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE |
Landfill sites are bursting to overflowing. Often they give off noxious gases and cause illness for those living nearby.
Dangerous chemicals leach from them into our water supplies. They are a blight on the countryside, and cause further pollution
because rubbish has to be driven to them, choking up roads, using up fuel and emitting exhaust gases.
Yet so much material is sent to landfill unnecessarily!
Organic matter can be composted. Some metals and plastics can be recycled. Glass can be recycled or re-used. Old clothes,
books, shoes etc can be given to friends or charity shops. Paper can be used on both sides, and then recycled. Some charities
want books for schools and libraries in poor countries. Old inkjet cartridges are collected by charity shops. Wood can be
re-used and re-used. Plastic wrappers from magazines can serve as sandwich bags.
When your imagination is employed, your dustbin can be mostly unemployed.
And what about municipal and commercial waste? Big organisations often pay lip-service to environmental ideas, and still have
neolithic practices. Thoughtless throwing-away is unsustainable.
For example, Nottingham City libraries regularly throw away tons and tons of unused brochures and leaflets and old books and
magazines etc., which could easily be recycled. (Tel. 0115 915 5555 and ask for Libraries and Information Services to protest.)
If there's any time left after washing out all those glass jars (W.I. markets will take them to put jam into), why not send
a few emails to find out what your council is doing with waste paper/organic waste/glass/etc.?
Email Nottingham libraries to give your opinion on the throwaway
culture
Of course, if we are going to recycle material, we should also use recycled products, otherwise there will be no market for
them and recycling will cease because it will be "uneconomic". Recycled toilet paper, tissues and kitchen towels are a first
step . . .
Guide to products available in the UK which contain recycled
materials.
As well as recycling more and using the products of recycling, we can minimise waste by using less in the first place. Why
not: buy apples in a paper bag rather than in a plastic tray covered in clingfilm? Register with the Mailing Preference Service
(Mailing Preference Service, Freepost 22, London W1E 7EZ) to reduce your junk mail? Say "No Thanks, I've brought my own" to
yet another carrier bag?
It can even become fun to see how little you can put in your dustbin. Even if you aren't a sad git!
Did you know that on average every person in the UK throws
away their own body weight in rubbish every two months?
This page contains hints as to how you can reduce the
amount
of waste you generate and increase the amount you re-use and recycle. There are also a number of links to further useful and
interesting information.
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Nuclear power is fine if you want cancer, unstable future generations, unusable land, chronic diseases and an unpredictable number of heads.
Fossil fuels are great if you want global warming (floods, droughts, starvation, skin cancer) and clouds of toxic smog.
What are the problems with renewables? Campaign for wind, solar and tidal power! |
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