How can YOU help for a better future

1. How can YOU help for a better
future

2. Recycling
● Organic waste frees less greenhouse
gases in compost than at landfill
● The recycling percent at glass bottles
was almost 100%, at aluminium cans
over 94% and at plastic bottles over
92%
● The responsibility of organizing carton
recycling centre is towns
● Recycled plastic gives the biggest
benefit as burned to energy production

3. Second hand marketing
- For example you can sell clothes
yourself at second hand store
- You can donate clothes to
mission second hand store
- Charity organizations collect old
clothes from industrial economies
and send to developing countries
- For example in 2015 UFF
collected 13 million kilos clothes
from Finland

4. PUBLIC TRANSPORT
By using public transportation one can significantly reduce their own carbon
emissions and carbon footprint.
BENEFITS
● FOR EXAMPLE BUSES, TRAINS...
● CHEAPER THAN DRIVING WITH YOUR OWN
CAR
● REDUCES TRAFFIC JAMS
● GENERALLY RELATIVELY SAFE WAY TO
TRAVEL
DISADVANTAGES
● NOT AVAILABLE IN COUNTRYSIDE
● IT CAN BE CROWDED IN THERE AND
UNCOMFORTABLE
● CAN BE SLOWER
● MIGHT BE RESTLESS
● HAVE TO FOLLOW SCHEDULES

5. HUMAN POWER IS UNDERESTIMATED!
- You can for example walk or cycle or skate to school or work and by
that improve your own health and simultaneously be ecologic
- It’s almost free and there’s huge benefits for yourself
- Doesn’t depend on schedules; you can go when you want
- Fresh air will cheer you up!

6. AIR TRAVEL
- very unecological
- causes about two percents of the
whole world’s carbon emissions
- popularity of flying is increasing
- it’s estimated that the emissions
will double in ten years,
- that something you can consider
when you choose a metod of
traveling

7. RATIONAL CONSUMPTION
Environmental point of view is not the best solution to buy everything you want. You should avoid unnecessary consumption and consider what
products you really need.When you are buying products, you should also think about where and how they are produced.
How do you recognize an environmentally friendly product?
PRODUCED DOMESTICALLY ORGANIC FOOD
FAIR TRADE
ENVIRONMENTAL, ENERGY AND RECYCLING SIGNS

8. ECO-FRIENDLY FOOD
VEGETARIAN FOOD
Did you know that animal production
alone causes more greenhouse gas
emissions than traffic?
ORGANIC FOOD
Did you know that the organic pig is
happier than the regular production pig?

9. PRODUCTION OF TOBACCO
Did you know that over 4.5
trillion cigarettes are
littered worldwide each
year?
This way cigarette butt
litters are a major
environmental threat.

10. Water and electricity
Most energy gets wasted on home heating system.
People spend close to 11 hours a year staring at an open fridge.
Keep electronic devices unplugged.
Shut the lights in the room when you leave.
Average Finn uses 155 litres per day.
Average household leaks 38000 liters annually.

11. Energy
Switch to geothermal heating
Get solar panels
Find out if you can buy clean electricity.
The end of fossil fuels

12. Sources
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http://www.uff.fi/vaatekerays.php
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