How to Protect Wildlife Habitat
What can you do to protect our wildlife, preserve, protect, or restore their native habitat?
Help fund our reforestation efforts
What can you do to protect our wildlife, preserve, protect, or restore their native habitat?
Zero waste is the most responsible lifestyle change as a consumer. We are so used to single use paper products like paper plates, or renewable materials such as aluminum cans, that the concept of zero waste is foreign. We could use a cup at a pizza shop which gets washed instead of using a paper cup drinking once and throwin it out onthe way out the door.
Changing our habitats is not only hard but most of the time it is not even an option.
Zero Waste Business Processes (Echo Systems)
Purchasing recycled paper products is one way to not create a demand to cut down our forests. Scott's Toilet paper brand cuts down a forest equivalent to the size of the state of Rhode Island in the Canadian boreal forest annually.
Environment Friendly Products - Paper Products
Sustainable forestry labeling is very misleading, most products offer "Mixed" sustainable forest certification. This means just one percent of the wood fiber has to come from verified sustainable forest.
Recycled Paper as the source of wood fiber for products like Paper towels and Bathroon Tissue is a more responsible consumer choice to be mindful of protection our wildlife habitats and preserving our forests.
Renewable products are products that are not single use and have the ability to be recycled.
Aluminum is a success story as it relates to recycling. 75% of all aluminum ever mined is still in circulation because the recycled aluminum is cheaper that the newly mined aluminum. Aluminium can also be recycled indefinitely, over and over again.
Plastic is cheaper as a new raw material where recycle plastic costs more because of the recycling process. There is a new bill in congress bout changing our rubbish, trash collection process where this is taken into account. Senators talk about possibly inflating the price of new plastic through a tax to make the recycled plastic more competitively price. Congress also has discussed subsidizing the recycling process to lessen the cost of recycled plastic. They have asked our land grant colleges to do research seeing if they can find alternatives to help this process.
Many businesses are required through local laws to have a recycling bin and a recycle waste service: Sometimes you cannot recycle a recyclable package where you buy it. Many municipalities have passed laws which require businesses that sell recyclable glass bottle sodas, or aluminium cans to have a recycling bin.
National Recycling and Compost Bills passed in US Senate
The Orangutan Project protects Indonesian rain forest which is Orangutan habitat