Are you personally a climate change champion?

Are you personally a climate change champion?

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Do you sleep without aircon on at least 3 days in a week?

• Never

• Sometimes

• Always

Did you know?

Air conditioners require lots of energy to function properly. It consumes so much electricity and therefore releases pollution. When fossil fuel is burned, carbon dioxide is also released into the air, more commonly known as a greenhouse gas, which is a major contribution to ozone depletion.

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Do you make it a point to send clean bottles, cans and newspapers to the recycling bin?

• Never

• Sometimes

• Always

Did you know?

Food/drinks residue is a form of contamination because when left on containers cannot be reliably processed.

By not washing your bottles/cans before sending to the recycling bin, you are risking the item being sent to landfill instead.

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Do you give old clothes, furniture and unwanted household items to charity/recycling rather than putting them in the trash bin?

• Never

• Sometimes

• Always

Did you know?

When you donate your clothes, you are saving the environment from a lot of harm. It costs S$60 on average per ton to dispose of waste in a landfill. Clothing that sits in landfill releases toxic greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane into the environment when they break down.

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Do you wait until you have a full load of clothes before doing the laundry?

• Never

• Sometimes

• Always

Did you know?

A high efficiency washer may use less than half the amount of water of a conventional top loader. While a top loader can use as much as 204L of water, the most efficient machines use only 26L.

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Do you collect rainwater for use in watering plants, etc (within your own premises)?

• Never

• Sometimes

• Always

Did you know?

Collecting rainwater for later use, or diverting it so that it does not become wastewater, is a very effective and easy way to conserve water. A typical household can reduce their consumption of treated water from mains by between 30 and 50% by harvesting rainwater.

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Do you bring reusable containers to tabao food?

• Never

• Sometimes

• Always

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Do you bring reusable containers to tabao food?

• Never

• Sometimes

• Always

Did you know?

Single-use containers used for takeaway food represent a significant source of waste and environmental impacts due to their low recyclability. 

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Do you bring your re-usable bags to shop at FairPrice?

• Never

• Sometimes

• Always

Did you know?

Recycling plastic bags often costs more than it is worth and so, many recycling facilities will not take them, meaning they end up in landfills.

Investing in reusable bags, either canvas or hard plastic will minimise the number of disposable bags that end up in landfills across the country.

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Do you switch off all the electrical sockets that you can in the house to save electricity?

• Never

• Sometimes

• Always

Did you know?

Leaving electrical appliances plugged in and charging while you sleep through the night means you'll be paying for electricity that's literally doing nothing. The simple solution is to turn most devices off at the plug socket, or unplug them altogether.

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Do you reuse plastic and cardboard packaging that comes with your online shopping packages?

• Never

• Sometimes

• Always

Did you know?

You can donate your packaging of your personal shopping to organisations like @package.pals. As businesses we can also work with The Sustainability Project to move towards Zero Waste for Businesses.  

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Do you ensure zero wastage at every meal?

• Never

• Sometimes

• Always

Did you know?

Food waste that ends up in landfills produces a large amount of methane – a more powerful greenhouse gas than even CO2. Excess amounts of greenhouse gases such as methane, CO2 and chloroflurocarbons absorb infrared radiation and heat up the earth’s atmosphere, causing global warming and climate change.