Green Wisdom

Energy Saving Energy Saving Plugging the TV, refrigerator, air conditioning can consume a total of power 9-15W in 24 hours even though they have been turned off; Unplugging the electrical power plug, can help a household saving an average of 244 degrees per year, and also can reduce carbon emissions for 234 kg, equivalent to 13 trees.

Green Shopping Green Shopping Reduce the use of plastic bags. In Hong Kong, the average disposal of plastic bag is 5pcs per person hence 33 million plastic bags are disposed in landfills each day. Moreover, most plastic bags cannot be decomposed; for this reason, there will be a large number of marine lives and up to 10 thousand of marine mammals, turtles and fish are killed because of this.

Household water saving Household water saving Close the shower nozzle while cleaning with soap can help reducing 3kg of water each time, which a family can be saving up to 540kg in a month; By moving down the toilet tank float to 2cm, 3kg of water per flush can be saved, for instance 12 flushes per day, 1 month could be saving water upt to 1,080kg. Simply one family may save up to 1,620kg water per month by doing the above mentioned tips, and in addition reduce carbon emissions 6,879kg which equivalent to 376 trees.

Green Transportation Green Transportation Air conditioning consumes more fuel and vehicles emits more gas than usual, so we should try not to always turn on the air conditioning by keeping car ventilation. In the case of driving without air-conditioning on, we can save two liters of petrol.

Waste reduction and reuse Waste reduction and reuse If 1 package of A4 paper is 2.2kg, we can reduce carbon emissions 770kg, equivalent to 42 trees by using 100 packages less; recycling one ton of waste paper to produce 800kg of recycled paper, can help 17 trees to live longer.

Green Festival Green Festival Families in Hong Kong dropped as many as 2.85 million moon cake every Mid-Autumn Festival; During barbecue, up to 5.6 million disposable cutlery are consumed. Sending friends Christmas cards during Christmas can express your wishes. However, behind the beautiful wishes, there are countless trees were sacrificed.

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