Exams are coming, and I am preparing notes. Funnily enough, I think of all the ‘conserving the environment’ actions that I do every day as I am preparing them.
I personally like to pen down all my school
notes and study notes on paper, or type them out and print them. My mother
keeps a set of papers that have only been utilize on one side, and we consider
as a family that to be a waste if we just directly disposed them without
utilizing them fully. All my notes are written or printed out on the reversed
blank side of used papers, and that has been a habit, I thank my parents, which
has cultivated in me since Primary school.
Another
common energy-saving technique I employ in my daily life, thanks to my mom for
screaming at me in my youth if I didn’t, is to immediately switch off all
appliances after use.. This is not so much a technique as a mindset though. To
other people who have a habit of forgetting such thing, I recommend pasting a
post-it note over the exact switch as a reminder. It is more or less a
foolproof method; I speak from experience.
NTUC has a
Bring Your Own Bag campaign in that whenever a customer brings his or her own
bag to carry their purchases home instead of NTUC having to provide
resource-intensive plastic bags, NTUC will discounted them 10 cents off the
final purchase. I can safely say that I have saved at least twenty dollars so
far as a result. Hooray! (The kiasu Singaporean strikes again)Reusing bags has
been a policy of my family since like forever and I strictly cohere to not
accepting plastic bags whenever possible, for example the carriers the bubble
tea shops (KOI!) provide or the small plastic bags used for small, portable
objects.
As I end my
blog entry, I hope that all of you out there that have read this can seriously
consider using them in your lives, not only does it conserve the environment;
it helps cut down your monthly energy bill. If already are, well done. Keep it up, and let
us Singaporeans unite as one to combat global warming!
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