How to pollute less in our day to day

Every year humans release an increasing amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. Around 40 billion tons a year. A large amount, an amount that should decrease as much as we can.

All of us are able to help with small actions that make big changes.

Ways to pollute less:

Reduce your plastic consumption:

• Do not use plastic bags, plastic is not biodegradable and they last in the environment, it takes exactly 150 years to degrade, while plastic bottles take 450 years. In addition to taking time to decompose, approximately 1.6 million barrels of oil are used to produce these elements per year.

• If you buy coffee or a drink for your day, bring your own reusable container.

• Do not use plastic straws, use bamboo, silicone or metal, but not plastic.

• Read this blog to find out more.

Use public transport: if your country provides you with public transport that is safe and orderly and you have the opportunity to use it, do so. If this measure is not possible, consider the option of obtaining an electric vehicle for your daily use.

Buy local products: the more distant the origin of the product, the more pollution will have occurred to transport it. You also have to add the wrapping for him sent as they are plastics, paper and aluminum.

Use low consumption light bulbs: incandescent lamps waste 85% of the energy consumed in the form of heat. In addition, low consumption light bulbs have a useful life of 15 times higher than traditional ones.

Using plants indoors: in addition to giving a special touch to the interior, it also helps to reduce the pollution produced indoors due to heating, air conditioning or tobacco (it is better if you do not smoke, both for your health and for the planet health).

Use recycled paper: according to studies a person uses around 500,760 sheets of paper a year (59 trees), take that number and multiply it by the number of people we are in the world (7.8 billion people), it is an exaggerated number. If we use recycled paper, we can stop the felling of trees and stop climate change.

Do not use the stand by: it is important to disconnect electronic devices when they are not being used. When it is in standby, it continues to consume energy, up to approximately 10%.

Use the 3R Rule: A good way to help is by using the 3R rule (reduce, reuse, recycle). In this blog you can get more information. Educate by example: teach people who do not know about this, show them, inflame them with your example and thus be able to help each other.

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All of us can help our planet and make a change, it just depends on us to get started. Do this every day and you will see how it becomes a habit.