After a nice day in the sun, walking through the local park and sitting for awhile on a bench, I suddenly noticed how many people, were leaving and not picking up their rubbish.
At this point a friend came over to speak to me, we had the usual greeting, then he turned away from me and said, ‘ What do you think about all that, then mate ?‘
To which I replied, ‘Do you mean the empty cans, bottles and crisp packets and things, that have just been left, by your friends and you ?’
Earth Day was on the 22nd April 2008, and many countries extend the courtesy and have an Earth Week where the goal is to “broaden the environmental movement worldwide and to educate and mobilize people, governments, and corporations to take responsibility for a clean and healthy environment”. What better way of helping the environment then giving grants to schools and daycare centers to better their playground surfaces, promote playground safety and help the environment with rubber mulch.
Governor Steve Beshear from the state of Kentucky has done just that by announcing 43 crumb rubber grants (worth almost $1 million) to schools, daycare centers, churches around the state. He recognizes the fact that recycling rubber tires and using the rubber crumbs in playground is both environmentally friendly, economic and helps prevent accidents.
I don’t want to hear any excuses, you do have time to be environmentally friendly and here are 6 ways, you can be environmentally friendly today, as you prepare to go to work, and in the workplace too.
Make yourself some sandwiches to take to work. You will be helping the environment by not driving somewhere to buy your lunch, and also saving on the packaging that comes with shop bought lunches.
It is there because, obviously we don’t think that much of our environment, especially when it comes to our streets and neighborhoods. We end up paying the costs for our local authority to clean up the mess that has been made by us.
Think about everything you throw away. Can something else be done with it? Can it be recycled, or can someone else make good use of it?
So don’t throw away or simply burn old clothes, books, kid’s toys, or even furniture, but instead give them to your local charity shop instead. You will be helping other people and the environment too.
There is only so much that a parent can teach their child about the environment and being green. Once children reach school age, they become subject to the views of other authority figures like teachers, and the peer pressure from other children.
It’s all very well, that they take heed of your green advice at home, but first chance your child gets away from you, they do the complete opposite, like visit that fast food joint, which you have expressed your environmental concerns over.
A few changes in our daily lives can really make a difference to the environment and help save the world! Since the industrial revolution, we have invented some many things that make ours lives easier, but unfortunately not all these things are so good for the environment, things like plastic bags, disposable cups, and old discarded tires, to name a few.
Americans throw away something like 100 billion plastic bags a year. That’s just a drop in the ocean compared to the worldwide number – an estimated one trillion plastic bags a year. A maximum of 3% of this number is recycled.
Over the past few decades, some people had the bright idea to build artificial reefs with tires.Now when I first head this, I imagined little colorful rubber plants and rocks – what a great idea!
No, it didn’t mean this, well not in the case of Osborne Reef, off the coast of Fort Lauderdale.In the 1970s, over 200 million tires were ‘reused’ and clipped together with steel clips and ceremoniously dumped in an effort to replicate a reef that game fish would inhabit.
Last year, it was recorded by Earth first that more than 1.3 billion tires were sold and that 75% of these purchases were to replace old worn out tires. That means that over one billion tires a year are being thrown away as waste.Now to stop this from having a huge environmental impact recycled tires are being used in a variety of innovative ways.
Have you ever walked past someone’s garden looked down between the plants and seen all that mulch stuff that people use.Well it is not all wood.Can you believe that some of these gardens use rubber?That’s right - rubber mulch;
After a nice day in the sun, walking through the local park and sitting for awhile on a bench, I suddenly noticed how many people, were leaving and not picking up their rubbish.
We all see litter and bigger kinds of rubbish (like tires) around where we live, yet we all have a 
Think about everything you throw away. Can something else be done with it? 
There is only so much that a parent can teach their child about the 
