Chemical & Process Technology: What you can do to help our friend "Environment" ?

Monday, October 15, 2007

What you can do to help our friend "Environment" ?

In my earlier post, "Theme for Blog Action Day - ENVIRONEMENT", OCT 15, 2007 is the Blog Action Day and the theme of the day is ENVIRONMENT. Have we ever ask ourself how much damage we have made to our environment ? I m sure many of us (especially within our Chemical & Process , Oil & Gas communities) are aware of the "contribution" by human to environment and nature. If you are one of them who don't ware of this, i am strong requesting you to take a little of your effort... continue reading...

Environmental issue is one of the hot topic recently and a lot of efforts have been taken / are taking to minimize and slowdown the impact and damage to our environment. You can appreciate this by understand the 2007 Noble prize (Chemistry) winning theme is ENVIRONMENT. Many of us may take this issue easy that this type of "biog" things, we leave it to those who has "big" vision, environmentalist, etc, This is just a "politic" topic and enjoy by many politician. Ultimately giving yourself a statement - Nothing much i can do.

Guys !...take a step backward. There are many things we can do although we are just nothing to anything. Following are something you can do :

Spread the environment awareness - Blog about it, inform you junior / kits, friend around you. Or minimum inform them to read this post. Or Copy contents of this post to forum, etc and create a link to this post.
Practise it - if you have not practised any of measures here, please practise at least ONE. If you have practised some, please practise EXTRA one. If you have practise ALL here. Congratulations ! Please provide ONE more extra measure in the comment.
Segregation of rubbish - Please segregate rubbish into a few categories such as non-biodegradable type (plastic, polymer, etc), biodegradable type (organic stuff, food, etc), reusable/recyclable bottle / aluminum cans, etc.
Proper Disposal of Electronic waste - Used batteries collect and sent to licensed disposable unit. NOTE : I would like to collect information on this type of collection center throughout the world so that it can be made known to everyone. If you aware any of this unit within you area, please drop me a note (Email) or leave it in comment column.
Recycle cellphone - Further reading... cellforcash - Recycle Your- Cellphones
Use Mechanical watch instead of Electric powered watch
Minimise consumption of packing paper - When you buy stuff in the store, most store will pack your purchased stuff in a plastic beg. f you only buy some light and small stuff, please do not ask for / return the plastic beg to the store owner (NOTE : remember to keep your receipt as proof of purchase.)
Use rechargeable battery instead of non-recycle type
Read e-book - Review & comment on the electronic paper instead of hard copy
Use recycle paper for draft works