If you’ve decided to go green in your daily life, congrats, we’re proud of you! Starting a more sustainable life involves a lot of effort, research, and determination - but making the decision means you’ve already completed the most challenging step. Don’t let the pressure of being the ideal eco-friendly consumer affect you; it’s perfectly fine to start small and allow yourself to make mistakes until you become more familiar with the concept. Remember that we don’t need a handful of people to do zero waste perfectly, we need millions of people doing it imperfectly.
That being said, if you’re new in the sustainability world, here’s a couple of simple ideas to get you started:
1. Recycle more.
You’ve probably seen this one coming, given the fact that we’re a recycling company. But we’re not encouraging you to recycle only the materials we’re currently taking in at our facility, but also paper, plastic, metal, glass and everything you can. To give you a bit of perspective, by recycling one short ton of paper, you can save 17 mature trees, according to the EPA - and it takes less energy to create paper from recycled materials than create “virgin” paper. The recycling stats in America don’t look good at all, due to the lack of knowledge that you can easily acquire by surfing the internet and informing yourself. Moreover, if you can convince two friends to recycle more, you’ve contributed a lot to an eco-friendly future.
2. Buy less.
Being a compulsive shopper is terrible for both the wallet and the environment, while the simple act of thinking twice before purchasing something goes a long way. We are not telling you to buy only the bare necessities and stop enjoying yourself, because the problem isn’t that we buy things we don’t need - the problem is that we buy A LOT of things we don’t need under the belief that they’re going to make us happy. We don’t need jewelry, home decorations, or custom-made clothing items - but they all are fruits of the labor of talented people that deserve to be supported. As long as we don’t mistakenly consider these objects essential for our happiness, it’s perfectly fine to get them and enjoy them.
3. Waste less food.
In the US, food waste is estimated at between 30-40% of the food supply, and it impacts society in two major ways: wholesome food that could’ve helped feed people in need is sent to landfills, and it leads to a waste of land, water, labor, energy used in producing, processing, transporting, preparing, storing and disposing of discarded food. Read more on the topic here.
About Gold Circuit E-Cycling and Recycle Your Foam
To learn more about our recycling solutions, visit our dedicated websites here:
www.goldcircuitecycling.com
www.recycleyourfoam.com/.
For inquiries, give us a call at 888-283-0007 or drop us a line at info@goldcircuitecycling.com
