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Small Ways To Save the World (Taught By Cats)

Learn how you can help to clean our environment healthier with a little help from some feline friends.

Amber Foote

Nov 29, 2016

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Small Ways To Save the World (Taught By Cats)

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1. Recycle

You’ve heard it a hundred times and you’ll hear it a hundred more - save the Earth by constantly recycling like this cat does!

2. Turn off lights

Never waste energy by leaving lights on in empty rooms or even an empty house. Instead conserve it by remembering to turn off any lights when leaving a room.

3. Take shorter showers

Everyone loves a nice long shower, but imagine how many gallons of water you’re truly wasting. Try cutting down your time in the bathroom every day by at least a couple minutes.

4. Use less paper towels

The next time you use a paper towel, take a look to see how wet it actually is after you use it. If it isn’t soaked through entirely, you used too much. Pay closer attention to how much you truly need.

5. Turn off the faucet

Often times, we leave sink faucets dripping without even realizing. This is a useless waste of water - make sure to tightly turn and close your faucets!

6. Change travel habits

Gas emissions from cars contribute to a large portion of today’s global warming situation. By carpooling with friends or taking a bike/train/bus instead, you will inevitably be helping to reduce those dangerous emissions immensely.

7 Use refillable water bottles.

The amount of plastic water bottles thrown away could create a chain that would wrap around our Earth several times! Try a more environmentally-friendly alternative, like refillable water bottles.

8. Stop littering

Stop creating more messy trash in this wonderful world than there has to be! Dispose of your wastes properly, it’s really that easy.

9. Pick up trash

Clean up after those who don’t follow the before-mentioned. No matter where you find trash, I’m sure there’s a reasonably close trash can or recycling bin.

10. Read news online

Instead of subscribing to a normal newspaper, save paper and catch up on all the news online.

11. Inform others

Encourage your family and friends to participate in helping to save our world in small ways!

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