Our green world
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OUR GREEN INDIA
• It’s a Special Day… we will take some time to discover why…and how to make everyday special!
My Belief
• Every single person can make a change…this can create a spiral effect to SAVE our world.
BE RESPONSIBLE
• I am the ONLY person RESPONSIBLE for my behavior.
• I choose to recycle…to make the world better place for my family.
• I choose today to introduce and challenge each of you to RECYCLE!
Get a Recycling Bin
Shopping Totes• I shop with jute bags
• I take these to the grocery store and the mall! I don’t want their plastic bags!
Plastic bags..
Don’t have to be eaten to harm the
animals
POOR THING!!!!!!!!
According to a survey
• In 2006, Americans drank about 167 bottles of water each, but only recycled an average of 23 percent. That leaves 38 billion water bottles in landfills.
• Bottled water costs between $1 and $4 per gallon and 90 percent of the cost is in the bottle, lid and label.
• According to the Beverage Marketing Corp, the average American consumed 1.6 gallons of bottled water in 1976. In 2006 that number jumped to 28.3 gallons.
• It takes over 1.5 million barrels of oil to manufacture a year’s supply of bottled water. That’s enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars.
Plastic Bottles
• Eight out of 10 plastic water bottles become landfill waste.
• In 2007 we spent $16 billion on bottled water. That’s more than we spent on iPods or movie tickets.
• Plastic bottles take 450-700 years before they begin to decompose in a landfill.
• If everyone in NYC gave up water bottles for one week they would save 24 million bottles from being land filled; one month would save 112 million bottles and one year would save 1.328 billion bottles from going into the landfill.
Yuck!
This Picture Represents the Amount of Plastic Bottles Thrown
Away Every 5 Minutes
Our Change
• Buy a PUR water purifier for your faucet.
• Buy a large plastic container to keep in the refrigerator for a constant “cold” water supply…
• Buy a container to take places instead of buying packed plastic water bottles and throwing them all around.
What Other Changes Can I Do?
How To Conserve Energy and Water
• Shut the water off while brushing your teeth…or brush your teeth in the shower!
• Put a bucket in your shower to capture water…use it to water your plants.
• Shut off the water while washing the dishes (by hand)
• Use less electricity in the summer by running appliances in the early morning or late evening…run “full” loads
Changes in Household Items
• Change hazardous waste material in your house to environmentally safe materials.
Is it a problem if we don’t acknowledge it?
Ideas for
Us?
WHAT SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT DO???????
• The government should implement strict rules like imposing fines and charges so that people should not throw garbage all around.
• The government should provide proper incentives so that the municipal corporation and the people to plant trees so that we can conserve our planet.
If Not Us…Then Who?
• If we don’t change…then who will?
• Society tends to always think someone else will do “it”.
• “It” happens to other people, “it” doesn’t really matter…
• I THINK “IT” DOES!!!
Is “It” Possible?
• Is the feat possible…or will we fail?
• Only time will tell…but without trying…
• WE FAIL.
“It” is in our
hands!
WE Deserve a Clean and Green Planet!
PRESENTATION BY:
B.THANVITHA RATHOD
B.KEERTHI
Y.BHAVISHYA
S.SREE LAKSHMI SAI
D.PUJITHA
B.SAI CHARITHA