Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
How We Opperate!
The attitude of reducing demands on resources like electricity and gas is paramount amongst these. To this can be added, the saving of paper in offices and homes.
Reusing of materials can help the environment because it then reduces the need for producing material for use. So reuse your plastic bags, newspapers where possible and think of any possibilities of reuse before you consign anything to scrap. There are a lot of organizations, which offer to do this, even if you do not find any way of reusing your old and obsolete items. This is especially true of electronic goods.
Newspapers can be recycled as can glass and to some extent plastic. In developing countries, like India, there are people who make a business out of taking away scrap from homes and offices and arranging to sell them to recyclers.
Another way of being environmentally aware is to extend this awareness to any thing that you purchase for further use. Many manufacturers are nowadays aware of their corporate social responsibilities and do try to produce their products from material that can be recycled or reused. Some mobile phone sellers insist that you return your old phone for recycling before you can purchase a new one. In the packaging industry, manufacturers are increasingly moving towards producing goods that are biodegradable and thus will never add to the pollution that upsets the environment from landfills, where quite a few of their products land up.