Go Green and Earthly!

Yesterday, I attended a workshop on "Reduce Global Warming & Enzyme-Making" by Dr Joean. She's a homeopath and holistic health practitioner who is very passionate in 'Save the Earth' projects as she hopes to prevent natural disasters and also to protect our next generation. We were all touched by her unselfish love, passion and compassion. This project is massive but every effort counts, so let's do our part by starting to transform garbage to eco-friendly enzymes in our homes.

Some alarming facts that we learned:

1) By 2025, more than three-quarters of lands will be covered by water.

2) Just an increase of 1 metre of water can flood the whole S'pore

3) When we charge our handphone for the whole night, the energy used can light up 100,000 houses

4) Now in Netherlands, only 40% of the country is land. Every year, the sea level is rising due to global warming.

Found the following useful info online.

Hope everyone can start to recycle and save the resources before it's depleted.

Materials that can be recycled are:

1. PET Bottles Mineral water bottles

2. Plastic and Bottles Bottles of soft drinks, soya sauce, milk, shampoo, detergents, Yakult and soft plastic bags.

3. Metal Cans & Tins Metal cans and tins from soft drink products, biscuit boxes, milk powder tins, paint cans, food & beverages tins...etc

4. Aluminium Cans Soft drink cans, beer cans...etc.

5. Paper Cartons Carton boxes, paper boxes, tissue boxes, egg trays, toilet paper rolls, fresh milk carton or paper-based fruit juice boxes.

(Kindly clean and flatten the above items to reduce storage space.)

6. Paper Newspapers, books, magazines, envelopes, photocopy papers, writing pads, advertisment papers, shopping bags...etc.
(Kindly keep them sorted and bundled properly.)

7. Clothes

Clothes should be packed separately, do not mix with other recycled items.

8. Electrical Appliances Computer sets, fans, video players, DVD players, TV sets, radios...etc.

9. Metallic Items Metal and stainless steel items such as pots and pan, aluminium containers, iron rods...etc

10. Others

School bags, leather, belts, shoes, soft toys, dry batteries, CD discs...etc.

Items that we DO NOT recycle:

All types of glasses, mirrors, fish tanks, flower pots, tableware, furnitures, rugs, ornaments, paintings, clocks, quilts, uniforms, undergarments, slippers, socks, wigs, flags, files, refrigerators, tyres, old records, computer floppy disks, sponge, etc.

Do you know?

- Recycling 50kg of paper = Saving one 20-year-old tree

- Recycling 10kg of metal can = Saving 5.7 litres of crude oil

- Recycling 1 aluminium can = Saving electricity for 3 hours of TV time

- It takes 1 litre (0.2 gallon) of petroleum energy to produce 32 PET bottles.

PET plastic bottles can be recycled to make sleeping bags, winter coats, stuffing for stuffed toys, zippers, binding bands, industrial plastics, heat sealable films, and many other things.

Recycling plastic is better than producing new plastic because the process requires 50 percent less energy.

Lifespan of garbage
If we do not recycle these resources, the time taken for them to be disintegrated naturally are:

- Newspaper-- 1 to 3 years

- Cotton-- 1 to 5 years

- Leather-- 50 years

- Wood & bamboo-- 200 years

- Disposable diapers-- 500 years

- Aluminium cans-- 500 years

- Glass bottles-- 1000 years

- Polyfoam-- Forever

- Plastic-- Forever

Source: http://www.tzuchi.org.sg/en/AD/recycle/recycle-eng.htm