Your actions
do make a difference. Don't think for a moment that you are too small and insignificant to have an impact. Every little bit helps. Remember: if you’re not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
- Reduce your use of plastics. In the supermarket ask for paper bags instead of plastic ones or, better still, take your own re-usable bags.
- Use re-usable products, such as re-usable razors, rechargeable batteries, and refill your printer's ink cartridges, rather than disposable ones.
- Choose coffee shops that use paper cups rather than plastic for take-out iced drinks. Better still, have your drink to stay and ask for it in a china mug or a glass.
- Select products that have minimal plastic packaging.
- Use as few plastic bin-liners as possible. Make sure they are full before you put them out for collection!
- Put your litter in the trash can and push it down to make sure it can't blow out again.
- Take plastic waste to recycling stations if available in your area.
- You're smart enough – you can certainly think of lots more ways to reduce your personal environmental impact.
- Widen your impact by encouraging your friends and family to do all these things too.
Please – believe that you can make a difference. It might seem like a big world but we are messing it up fast. Act now so that when your children ask you what you did to help save the oceans, you can honestly answer them, “I did my best.”
For more information, take a look at
these links.
For the chapter on plastics from the Blue Frontier Campaign's book, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean,
click here. To buy it online,
click here.
