Posted on 10th Jun 2009 @ 8:02 PM

Everyday TIPS for Sustainable Living

 

Practical things you can do to help Mother Nature

 

#1 Bring your own water tumblers                    

     Instead of buying single serve bottled water.

 

Did you know that the global consumption of bottled water doubled between 1997-2005, reaching a total of 164.5 billion litres or 25.5 litres per person

 

√ Reduce landfill

 

#2 Buy in bulk

     Save money and reduce waste

 

Save time and stock-up for a week by making just one trip to the market. Do this and you’ll also save on petrol and parking charges! Remember also to freeze food immediately to lock in freshness.

 

√ Reduce carbon emissions and carbon footprints

 

#3 Bring your own coffee mug

     Instead of styrofoam cups which are non-biodegradable.

 

Over 25,000,000 styrofoam cups go into landfills annually. Styrofoam comprises 25% of our landfill space and is not recyclable, so cups used today will still be around 500 years from now! Incinerating Styrofoam is also not an acceptable alternative to burying it, as it produces over 90 different hazardous chemicals, including styrene vapours and dioxin.

 

√ Reduce pollution and green house gas emissions.

 

#4 Don’t waste. SAVE.

When dining out, bring your Tupperware container fpr leftovers instead of using the restaurant’s Styrofoam container.

 

Styrofoam food container emit benzene and styrene into the air, and into our food! This is especially true for hot food or drinks in these containers.

 

√ Reduce landfill and Reusable

 

 

 

 

 

 

#5  Use the microwave

Cooking takes up a lot of energy. Therefore, cook in large portions, store leftovers into Tupperware’s microwaveable containers, and reheat again for another meal the next day.

 

Use your microwave whenever possible when reheating food as it uses only 20% of the energy that your oven does.

 

√ Save energy

 

 

#6  Replace plastic bags with Tupperware.

Tupperware’s durable, versatile storage products lasts virtually forever and offer sustainable, reusable option to plastic bags which only end up in landfills.

 

Over 500 billion plastic bags are used annually, with the majority ending up in landfills. Recycling plastic bags is futile as the cost is about 99% higher than what the recycled plastic is worth.

 

Additionally, over 240 species of marine life are reported to be harmed by plastic bags. Some bags actually ‘strangle’ animals; others kill from the inside when the animal mistakes the nag for food. In some parts of ocean, plastic bits outnumber plankton by a ratio of 6:1!

 

√ Kinder towards our animal friends

 

 

#7  Say ‘No’ to paper or plastic bags

Using reusable, high quality cloth grocery bags offsets significant environmental harn and eliminates a portion of our waste stream.

 

Fourteen plastic bags contain enough petroleum to drive a car 1.7km; paper bags do not biodegrade in landfills due to a lack of oxygen.

 

√ Save on natural resources

 

#8  Use bio-degradeable detergent 

Detergent contain phosphate additives to soften water and improve effectiveness of detergent molecules. Algal blooms grow on the excess of phosporus and consume most of the oxygen in the water, killing fish and plants.

 

Instead, use TupperClean range of cleaning products, which are made from    plant-based ingredients that are environmentally-friendly and biodegradeable.

    

    

√ Reduce pollutants in our water system