3R CONCEPT

     Are you a 'green' person? Do you always concerned about the ongoing environmental issues of our MOTHER NATURE? Whether you are or not, there's no excuses now, we are supposed to do something to replenish our natural environment for us and our future generations.We should by now be mindful and concern in slowing the trend on climate change of our earth. Have you ever heard about 3R concept? The 3R stands for Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

REDUCE

The first step to reducing our impact on the environment is to reduce the amounts of resources that we consume and use. We should think twice before we buy or use anything. 

Here are some of the ideas on reducing our waste:

 Waste Disposal

• Print and photocopy as little as possible. Also, do it double-sided.

• Use e-mail for mailing purpose to minimize paper use

• Send and store documents like necessary papers and business proposals electronically instead of on paper.

• Simply by changing the margins on our Word documents to a smaller inches, we can reduce the amount of paper used by almost 5%.

• Choose products that come with minimized packaging and do buy refills.

 There are also many ways to optimize our energy consumptions.

Energy Consumption

• Turn off unused or unneeded any electronic devices at all times.

• Leaving a space between our refrigerator and the wall increases air circulation around the condenser coils, allowing the fridge to operate more efficiently and thus less electricity used.

• Reducing the air-conditioning temperature by 1°C will reduce 5-10% of the electricity consumption and avoid up to 300kg of CO₂ emissions per household and year.

• Use natural lighting instead of electric lighting whenever possible.

• Park our cars in the shade whenever possible. This may lowers the temperature in the gas tank by up to 7 degrees, significantly reducing fuel evaporation thus reducing fuel consumption.

•  Brush teeth by using a cup of water instead of running tap.

REUSE

• Reuse old plastic bags or get a reusable shopping bag.

• Donate the old clothing to a local charity.

• Use old newspaper, magazines as wrapping papers.

• Reuse seashells by crushing into small pieces as decoration in the garden.

• Donate old books to the library or an orphanage.

• Reuse old papers as memo pads.

RECYCLE

    Do you know that by recycling  just one aluminium can saves 90% of the energy needed to produce a new one? For 1kg of recycled plastics, the CO₂ emissions reduced by 1.5kg and by recycling 1kg of paper instead of landfilling it avoids 900grams of CO₂ emissions as well as methane emissions.

• Recycle our organic waste by composting it in the garden to reduce the green house gas, methane emissions.

• Recycle our old computers and gadgets by sending them to the electronics recycle booth.

• Learn how to do sorting of recycling items such as aluminium cans, papers, plastics and glasses to ease the recycling process. 

Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin. Now is your time to act!!