Earth Month Challenge

Focus: Reducing Waste

Fifteen things someone could do as a challenge to decrease their impact on the environment by reducing their waste:

  1. Buy food that you need and will eat within a reasonable amount of time. Over-shopping for food, especially produce will lead to waste
  2. Buy objects that can be re-used
  3. Sell or giveaway unwanted items such as clothing, instead of throwing it away
  4. Keep cardboard boxes to re-use for other purposes
  5. Purchase and use re-usable bags
  6. Do not buy individually wrapped items (such as snack packs)
  7. Shop at thrift stores instead of only buying new clothes
  8. Buy items made of recycled content
  9. RECYCLE
  10. Use both sides of notebook paper
  11. Only take as much food as you are going to eat at the dining halls
  12. Keep your tires inflated, you will get better mpg and they will last longer
  13. Use a re-usable coffee mug
  14. Rent formal wear
  15. Ride your bike if possible

Three campus or Columbus resources related to The Ohio State University that could be helpful for someone who is trying to reduce their waste:

  1. The rentable bicycles around campus instead of taking a Car2Go or Uber would be a great way to get around without polluting the air.
  2. Renting books from the library instead of buying them new would be a great way to reduce production and paper waste. There are multiple libraries on campus to check and see if they have the books that you might need for class. Also, asking upper classmen you might know could sell you their used textbooks. It would reduce waste and the price of the books.
  3. Using the recycling bin that is placed in every dorm helps to, you know, RECYCLE. Goods that can be recycled but end up in landfills is extremely bad for the environment. Some materials used to make recyclable items could be bad for the environment and therefore if they are recycled more often they do not have to be made as often.

 

http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/reduce.html

http://www.rethinkrecycling.com/residents/reduce/top-10-ways-reduce-waste

http://www.reduce.org/

http://www.pima.gov/deq/waste/101ways.html

***These are all great websites to reference since they list tons of ways to reduce waste!

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