I know that you are discovering about me through my blogposts! Today's post reveals my interest in saving our planet! Yes, it may sound cheesy and cliche to talk about saving the earth. However, this is something I have been practising all my life! All thanks to my parents and some other life experiences that made me do what I do today!
We all know about the 3 BIG Rs - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle! But it is not just about knowing them. Instead, we should ask if we have been practising them? What is the point of education if you do not apply what you have learnt when necessary? Just take few moments to recall whether you have done any one of the BIG Rs. If yes, well done and continue the good work! If not, its never too late to start, so welcome onboard! :D
I am going to share some of the ways I have implemented the 3 BIG Rs!
How it all started?
My parents are my role models when comes to the 3 BIG Rs. It is not that they are environmentalists or very keen in saving the earth! Rather, they simply wanted to save money and not spend unnecessarily. Hahahha! Nonetheless, the efforts they took did help in saving the earth and set a good example for me.
How did it affect me so deeply?
This may sound ridiculous, but it is the truth. I became very interested in saving the earth ever since I watched the movie "WALL-E". Yes, you read it right; the animated, boring (according to some), slow-moving "WALL-E" movie affected me. I was somehow drawn to the story of what might happen if we take our planet for granted. Especially after knowing about how the ozone layer is being affected, how global-warming is getting from bad to worse and not much is being done! The climate changes are now very obvious; the weather is getting hotter and more unpredictable. These are signs of us taking earth for granted. And I strongly feel that we should appreciate our earth and help to save it from dying!
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Yes, one person is not going to make much difference! But the effort definitely needs to start from a single person! If we keeping pointing fingers and not do anything about it, we can start saying "good-bye" to our earth from now and forget about our future generations!
Ways to practice the 3 BIG Rs:
1) I am sure we all look for peanut butter cream and jams for our breakfast! Do not throw away the bottles once you finish them! Reuse them! See my parents' efforts in saving money from buying containers to store the spices!
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| Years of Skippy bottle collection by my parents to store spices for cooking! |
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| Indian spices for cooking are stored in Skippy Peanut bottles! |
2. Recycling/reusing does not always need to sound serious! Be creative and go crazy with the items to be recycled or reused. I made a mini drawer set from the thick card boards in the packaging of the bottle reed diffusers that I purchased.
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| I just added the brads for aesthetic purpose. It actually does not help in opening the drawers. hehe |
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| I store safety pins, bobby pins, paper clips and hair clips in these 4 drawers! |
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| Earrings displayed neatly for easy selection! :D |
4. If you don't have an opportunity to recycle, I am sure you would at least have plenty of opportunities to reduce! I always bring my own cloth shopping bags whenever I head to the supermarket for grocery shopping. I always do my best not to take plastic bags from shops. Initially my husband was very frustrated and thought I was just being very annoying and going overboard. Subsequently, he understood my concern and now joins me in saving the earth! He also reminds me to bring the shopping bags when leaving our house to shop! Now there's 2 of us! We need more!
5. In Singapore, our government aids recycling efforts by placing recycling bins at most HDB apartments and private housing estates. This is done by the National Environment Agency under the National Recycling Programme.
To find the nearest recycling bin, go to OneMap.sg. Search for your estate using your postal code. Then, under the environment theme (bar at the top), click on recycling bins. This will highlight all the recycling bins near your estate
So stop giving excuses and start recycling today! I am proud that many of my neighbours in my housing estate recycle diligently! :D
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| Source: www.colex.com.sg |
| Source: irjournalist.blogspot.com |
Hope these 5 ways would have inspired and encouraged you to start on the 3 BIG Rs! Don't forget that every small step that we take makes a difference and that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step!!
If you have done anything creative or have any other ways to recycle, please share your ideas below! Have a great week! Let's be the real super heroes in saving our earth! :D
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