The document provides 23 tips for how individuals can help the environment, such as bringing reusable bags for shopping, buying products with less packaging, using public transportation, recycling paper and glass, and turning off lights when not in use. It encourages taking personal responsibility for the environment by following these tips and developing lifelong environmentally friendly habits from a young age.

1. How can everyone of us
help the environment?
Nikol Bilić, 8.a

2. 
Here we have some useful tips on
how we can help the enwironment.

3. 
1. When you go shopping, bring your
own bag instead of purchasing plastic
bags.

4. 2. Buy no more then you really need - Buy
rationally.
I just came for bread…

5. 3. Buy products with long life
(for example - planted Christmas tree or the
one with more durable materials.)

6. 4. Buy fresh foods that require less
packaging then vacuum packaging.

7. 5. Buy drinks in returnable bottles

8. 6. Give support to local food
manufacturers or stores that sell local
produce.

9. 7. Buy recycled products ; toilet
paper and bags for gifts. Their
production reqires 95% less energy.

10. 8. Use organic and herbal soaps and
shampoos, and natural cleaning
products.

11. 9. Avoid aerosol and use only
products with pumping suspensers
that allow re-filling.

12. 10. Leave the refrigerator open as little
time as you can for less energy
consumtion

13. 11. Take a showe instead of a bath.
You can save considerable amonts
of water

14. 12. Save the thermal energy. While
heating the room, close the windows,
so you won't heat the street.

15. 13. Make sure that the light is not on the
premises when there is no one. Make
sure the other folks do it as well

16. 14. Repair the damaged pipe from
which the water is running without
control.

17. 15. Compost your leftovers and
scraps for your garden fertilazation

18. 16. Water your garden and yard in the
evening or early morning to prevent
evaporation during summer.

19. 17. When you take a pet for a walk,
clean up what remains after it.

20. 18. Stop using drinking straws in
restraurns.

21. 19. Walk or take a bike - leave the
car in the garage as long as possible

22. 20. Use rechargeable batteries.

23. 21. Use public transport or arrange
to share a car with friends.

24. 22. Recycle paper

25. 23. Recycle glass

26. 
- So, we should not always think
about ouselves, because the
environment needs us, and we need
it even more. Therefore, make sure
you follow these tips for the benefit
of the environment, and thus
ourselves. Foundation for change is
personal change that starts with
each one of us. Let us not be
passive observers. Participate
actively!

27. 
- It is good that the children in the
family start to take care and properly
treat the environment in which they
live from early childhood. If we start
acting on environmentaly friendly
basis in our young age we will
deevlop lifelong habits that have the
proper relationship to the
environment in which we live. We will
keep an eye on the cleanness and
realize the need to preserve the
natural balance, which is necessary
for the normal life of the individual
and of all humanity.

28. I would like to finish with the
famous sentence,
Think Globally, Act Locally!