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Then start doing it! Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Refer to the next page for more information.

Do youtravele!ciently?

Walk, bike, and use public transportation as often as possible. Youll save 1 pound of CO2 for every mile that you dont drive.

Youre still in the running ofbecoming global warmings next

top survivor. If you answered yes to all of these, youre on a pretty

good track! Now start taking bigger steps, like donating to envi-ronmental organizations, attend-ing beach cleanups, etc. Start by visiting the Greenpeace website.

congrats!

Have you watched AnInconvenient Truth?

Do you like movies?

How can you not like movies? Not liking movies is like not liking puppies.

Go to a DVD store, buy it, and watch it! Youll learn so much more about the environment. You wont regret it.

Do you eat meat often?

Try to eat less meat, and if youre dedicated, start moving towards avegetarian diet! Give it a shot.

BUTWHY?

Start eliminating meat from your diet.(If youre a vegetarian already, thats great! Encourage your friends and family to do the same.)

Do you switch o" electronical appliancesthat arentin use?

Do you usecompactfluorescentlightbulbs?

Replace your regular lightbulbs with energye!cient fluorescent ones!Youll save 300 pounds of CO2 per year.

Do youplant

trees?

But seriously, please watch it! Its not just a boring documentary, its veryinformative andlifechanging, I promise!

Would you ever open your refrigerator, pull out 16 plates of pasta, toss 15 in the trash, and then eat just one plate of food? Of course not. But...

You definitely should! A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon diox-ide over its lifetime.

...until the answer to every single one of these questions is yes!

Join the fight against globalwarming just by doing these simple steps. Its not too late

to make a di"erence.

keep working on it...

...if you eat chicken, fish, pork, etc, that's what you're doing wasting resources and destroying our environ-ment. The most important step you can take to save the planet is to go vegetarian.

DO YOU FOLLOW THE THREE RS REGULARLY?

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Waste prevention and recycling reduce greenhouse gases from landfills/other waste management by:

Reducingmethaneemissions

educeeuseecycleR Increasingstorage of carbon dioxide in trees Savingenergy!

enough to power

months

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1260 miles

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which can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the air each year

Make a plan with your family to collect di!erent categories of waste - put paper in one bag, aluminum in another, and plastic in a third - and every month, go to some recycling bins nearby your home and discard the waste there.

Try to reduce waste and reusematerials in your daily lives! It can be as simple as eating all the food on your plate and using both sides of a piece of paper. And of course, recycle - there are many publicrecycling bins all over Hong Kong.

Recycling

SAVES...TONof paper1

Trees17

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kilowattsof energy

3.2CUBICYARDSof landfill space

60poundsof pollution

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