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How can YOU help for a better future

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Page 1: How can YOU help for a better future

How can YOU help for a better future

Page 2: How can YOU help for a better future

Recycling

● Organic waste frees less greenhouse gases in compost than at landfill

● The recycling percent at glass bottles was almost 100%, at aluminium cans over 94% and at plastic bottles over 92%

● The responsibility of organizing carton recycling centre is towns

● Recycled plastic gives the biggest benefit as burned to energy production

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Second hand marketing

- For example you can sell clothes yourself at second hand store

- You can donate clothes to mission second hand store

- Charity organizations collect old clothes from industrial economies and send to developing countries

- For example in 2015 UFF collected 13 million kilos clothes from Finland

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PUBLIC TRANSPORTBy using public transportation one can significantly reduce their own carbon emissions and carbon footprint.

BENEFITS

● FOR EXAMPLE BUSES, TRAINS...

● CHEAPER THAN DRIVING WITH YOUR OWN CAR

● REDUCES TRAFFIC JAMS

● GENERALLY RELATIVELY SAFE WAY TO TRAVEL

● EASY ALTERNATIVE ON LONG DISTANCES

● ONE CAN WORK WHILE TRAVELING

● DECREASES PARKING IN BIG CITIES

DISADVANTAGES

● NOT AVAILABLE IN COUNTRYSIDE

● IT CAN BE CROWDED IN THERE AND UNCOMFORTABLE

● CAN BE SLOWER

● MIGHT BE RESTLESS

● HAVE TO FOLLOW SCHEDULES

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HUMAN POWER IS UNDERESTIMATED!

- You can for example walk or cycle or skate to school or work and by that improve your own health and simultaneously be ecologic

- It’s almost free and there’s huge benefits for yourself

- Doesn’t depend on schedules; you can go when you want

- Fresh air will cheer you up!

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AIR TRAVEL

- very unecological

- causes about two percents of the whole world’s carbon emissions

- popularity of flying is increasing

- it’s estimated that the emissions will double in ten years,

- that something you can consider when you choose a metod of traveling

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RATIONAL CONSUMPTIONEnvironmental point of view is not the best solution to buy everything you want. You should avoid unnecessary consumption and consider what products you really need.When you are buying products, you should also think about where and how they are produced.

How do you recognize an environmentally friendly product?

PRODUCED DOMESTICALLY ORGANIC FOOD FAIR TRADE

ENVIRONMENTAL, ENERGY AND RECYCLING SIGNS

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ECO-FRIENDLY FOOD

VEGETARIAN FOOD

Did you know that animal production alone causes more greenhouse gas

emissions than traffic?

ORGANIC FOOD

Did you know that the organic pig is happier than the regular production

pig?

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PRODUCTION OF TOBACCO

Did you know that over 4.5 trillion cigarettes are littered worldwide each

year? This way cigarette butt

litters are a major environmental threat.

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Water and electricity

Most energy gets wasted on home heating system.

People spend close to 11 hours a year staring at an open fridge.

Keep electronic devices unplugged.

Shut the lights in the room when you leave.

Average Finn uses 155 litres per day.

Average household leaks 38000 liters annually.

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Energy

Switch to geothermal heating

Get solar panels

Find out if you can buy clean electricity.

The end of fossil fuels

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Sourceshttps://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kierr%C3%A4tys

http://www.uff.fi/vaatekerays.php

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