听无止境：保护环境从点滴做起
How To Save The Environment
Tips for saving carbon in your every day life.
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Reducing your carbon footprint on a local level can be one small step in reducing pollutants that heat the entire planet daily. Give up those old-fashioned light bulbs. Switch from Thomas Edison era incandescence to fluorescence. Experts say they use a fourth of electricity and last years longer.www.hjbbs.com。转载请注明出处。
Unplugging appliances when not in use can also help. Your household alone can save more than a thousand pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere. Another way to reduce costs and energy usage seems like common sense. Watch that thermostat. Adjusting by small increments each season, up and down just 2 degrees, two thousand pounds of carbon dioxide a year can be saved.
In the bathroom, if your toilet was made before 1993, it’s old and it can take up to 5 more gallons of water per flush. If you don’t have a low volume toilet tank and don’t want to update, a space floater can easily help save water.
A lot of resources are also wasted in the kitchen .Skip unnecessary steps. A half pound of carbon can be saved when you don’t preheat the oven and 20 extra gallons of water per load can be conserved when you don’t pre-rinse.
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At the grocery store, reuse bags or bring your own. It takes one thousand years for the plastic ones to biodegrade in landfills.
On the road, taking fewer left turns can help reduce carbon dioxide emitted when idling. It takes some extra planning, but even express deliveries are conscious of its impact .The United Parcel Service saved 3 million gallons of fuel last year.
John Koninis, ABC NEWS.
