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Small Acts Big Difference- 2
by Aaditya Singh \| 11-09-2013 05:13 0
I am an active student member of the Emirates Environment Group (EEG). EEG is a professional working group devoted to protecting the environment through means of education, action programs and community involvement. They are involved with various recycling initiatives. As a student member I regularly collect recyclable material and deposit with EEG for recycling. Recycling is obviously the last option after trying to reduce and reuse. Collecting and depositing recyclables also needs to be planned to ensure that it puts least load on the environment. While collecting cans and beverage tetrapack cartons, we are required to wash them before depositing to ensure that the material does not attract flies and insects during storage. We cannot be wasting water while washing them. While washing tetrapacks at my home, we wash the milk tetrapacks when it is over, with potable water and use the water to knead our bread dough of the next meal, so no water is wasted. As per dentists, we should take a sip of water after drinking juice to wash off the acidic contents of the juice from the teeth and food pipe. So for juice too, we wash the pack with a little drinking water and drink that water to ensure that the juice remains are washed off the teeth. While cleaning tetrapacks collected from other people too, I use very little water to clean them. I keep pouring water from one pack to another, till I have cleaned all packs. In the end that water is used as the first rinse for used food plates. For cleaning aluminium beverage cans too I use very little water. I fill the sink (when clean) with a little water using a stopper. I wash all cans with this water, filling and emptying them one by one. If done in the kitchen sink, this water too can be used as a pre-rise for food plates/vessels. Collecting and preparing material for recycling should not mean that we waste another valuable resource in the process. For depositing the material too, I do that once a week when I am visiting the area near the EEG office for my Hobby class, so that I do not waste petrol, another non renewable resource. Awareness about our actions and their impact on the environment, however small it may be, is important to bring about the big change that we need to conserve the environment.

Youth Aaditya Singh