By: Laura Puurunen
We challenge you, fellow student, to take part
in minimizing waste by reducing, reusing and recycling!
This year we encourage everyone to think especially
about the food waste. In developed countries, food waste is a huge problem: it
requires lots of energy, land and water to produce the food on your plate, and
if it ends up in the bin it has all been for nothing. In Europe we waste food
to the extent that by reducing it only by 15 %, we could feed the amount of
people in Europe all over again. That’s something to think about! Therefore, please
be mindful of your portion sizes and you’ll do the environment a favour!
Continuing an item’s life instead of throwing
it in the bin is the ultimate eco-deed: compared to new stuff being produced, it
takes much less energy to repair what’s broken and continuing to use it for the
purpose it was designed for. Also giving
your stuff away to have a chance to fill someone else’s needs after you no
longer need them is a great chance to reduce waste. Dig through your closets
and check if you have unwanted things clogging up your space, and bring it to
the Stuff exchange days!
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| Organic food waste. Source: http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/11/31502/ |
The world’s resources are not infinite either,
and also for that reason we should always rather recycle the raw material of an
item at the end of its life, than throw it in the landfill. Have you for
example known, that in addition to recycling the normal paper, cardboard, glass
and metal, you can take your worn out clothes that’s not possible to be reused
anymore, to the fabric recycling bin at any H&M and they will use it as
material for new fabric? (Disclaimer: this is not an H&M ad; I just
encourage you to take use of their recycling program! You should still consider
whether buying things from them is smart. ☻) In Tampere
there’s also a currently ongoing plastic recycling test period where you can
drop off your plastic at the recycling bins around the city. Unfortunately
there are only eight of those points in the city, the closest one to TAMK being
located in Tammelantori. It’s interesting to see how much you can actually
reduce your waste by recycling even the plastic! I challenge you to try and
guarantee that you no longer need to take the trash out very often!
Drop by on Stuff exchange days in Lämpiö near Teiskontie entrance, on
Monday and Tuesday 24th to 25th of November, and learn
about more ways to reduce, reuse and recycle!
You can also find us on Facebook:
References: European Week for
Waste Reduction. http://www.ewwr.eu/en
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