WHAT WE CAN DO?
Waste will always exist but we must find ways to reduce its impact on our environment to promote recycling, re-use and composting, to reduce the amount of packaging and “disposable” products. HOW?
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In 1992 just over 170 countries gathered together in Rio de Janeiro for a meeting called “the Earth Summit” to discuss the future of our world. Together they agreed that there was a need to work together, “ in global partnership for sustainable development”. We must make sure that whatever we do, as populations expand and lifestyles change, we must keep the world in good condition so that our children and our children’s children will have the same natural resources that we have. Natural resources that include: fresh air, clean freshwater, farmland, wildlife, forests, unpolluted seas and a stable climate. A sustainable lifestyle is one that our environment can support without using up these valuable natural resources.
WHAT WE CAN DO? Promote energy conservation. The less energy we use, the less we need to produce which means non-renewable resources last longer and less pollution is caused. HOW?
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