Social media users are sharing their genius ideas for reducing, reusing and recycling.
People are re-sending birthday cards, making banana leaf ice cream cones and sharing other solutions to reduce their environmental impact, reports Daily Mail.
Every year, two billion tons of garbage are thrown in the world. Many people are becoming aware of their impact on the environment, as garbage sent to landfills creates significant amounts of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
Among the small but simple things that people can do is reuse the birthday card. For example, brothers Jeff and Ron Metier from Arizona, USA, have been sending the same postcard back and forth since 1973.
Norwegian diplomat Erik Solheim received ice cream in a non-waste banana leaf cup during his stay in India.
Hannah Frischberg from New York shared the idea for her Tetra Pak wallet after she was "burgled". The thief mistook the eco-wallet for trash, so they took it to the ground, where the woman later found it.
Jonathan Mearns and Catherine Loveless of London Christmas Tree Rental have started renting out Christmas trees to reduce the number of Christmas trees ending up in landfill.
Otto's Coffee Shop in Sevenoaks, UK has decided to only serve coffee to customers who bring their own reusable cups. To illustrate the importance of reusable tableware, they filled their shop with disposable cups.
Lowe's in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US, is offering shoppers to "cut the herbs you want" instead of selling herbs in individual plastic bags.
Also, one woman made a chew toy for a dog from the fabric remnants of old jeans. And the student weaves baskets from notes.
In addition, a woman from Great Britain sewed beach bags from an old shower curtain.
In Australia, one supermarket set up a bag wall at the main entrance so people could leave or take reusable bags. Also, in one of the Australian coffee shops, Tetra Pak boxes are used as trays for cups.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that Scandinavian brand Gianni launched P2P (person to person) clothing resale platform, to make secondhand shopping seamless.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, KPI students collect used disposable electronic cigarettes in order to turn them into an element of the reset system drones, which are then sent to the Armed Forces.
