The whole world knows about global warming, who really care about it? We see people joining different kind of group in Facebook regards to saving the earth. But how many of us practically do it? In order to save the world, there are 3 Rs to follow: Recycle, Reuse and Reduce. Today this post is about Reduce - Reduce Waste.
Today, I started to keep one or two food container with spoon and chopstick with me. And all these while i have a Green Bag in my bag… What i did today and i wish to continue doing this is to bring these containers and put in my green bag to the restaurant and use it to tapao my food.
Waste are things that canot be recycle, so we should learn to reduce the amount of products we purchase which cannot be reused or recycled.
A little bit more details, I had vegetable mee soup today. If i didnt use my own containers today, I would had wasted a plastic bag for soup, a plastic spoon and folk, styrofoam box and a plastic bag to pack all these.
Hope you will keep up the good work!!!
[...] by Blacksnail on her effort to start reducing waste (http://blacksnail.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/save-the-world-chapter-1-reduce/), i started a page to keep track of how am i doing in the same. If each of us can do the little bit [...]
SJ, save the world .. at the same time have to save yourself too. Don’t use plastic containers. Would advise you to invest in a good set of glass food containers (eg pyrex) or ceramic containers (eg corningware). It’s going be a little heavier but you know for sure it would cause any health problem.
wah.. glass food container really very heavy one leh… i using t*pperw*re, which is also causing less health issues..
Good work Jiun, I am so happy to hear that another person is practically putting effort and contributing in saving the our home, the earth. I’ve been recyling and reducing papers/plastic bag. I also carry green bags. I put in each of my car a green bag. And justnow I just tapao some sushi and it involved actually a plastic container. It is such a daily routine that I did not realized it at all. I am going to do the same as you by carrying an extra container and spoon and fork and chopsticks. In fact wooden disposable chopstick CAUSE health issues. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. I hope to see more ppl comment and support this post!!! Bdw, its such a great relief to see that supa save is also encouraging green bags
. And i saw recycle bins behind SCB Gdg. Duno if they allow public to throw der :p. Hope those Dumping Areas could set up such bins to categorize WASTE!!!