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Reduce Your Everyday Waste!
Try to reduce your everyday waste by following the ideas below. Commit to the challenge for just two weeks or even 30 days!
Why??
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Many environmental hazards come from the toxins that are released in the process that waste undergoes in landfills. By reducing consumptions, composting, reusing, and recycling, landfills do not have to be as big and create such problems.
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Landfills contribute to 20% of Canada's methane emissions
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By carpooling and using public transportation, both traffic and the gas being released into the air can be significantly reduced. This is time-efficient, cost-efficient, and environmentally efficient.
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While the average Canadian motored vehicle owner spends $8, 600 to $13, 000 for their vehicle every year, those same vehicles are parked 96% of the time.
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Landfills are built up land – eventually, space for these landfills will run out
Follow these 9 ways to reduce everyday waste: ​
Limit your shower to 5 minutes!
Use public transport or a bike instead of your car!
Bring reusable waterbottles everywhere!
Use reusable containers instead of Ziploc bags!
Bring reusable grocery bags!
Hang dry your clothes instead of using an electric dryer!
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Reuse G.O.O.S. paper!
