Why Prevent Waste?

Waste is bad for the environment and bad for us. Valuable resources such as trees, oil, gas, metals as well as water and increasingly expensive energy are used to create the things we consume on a daily basis such as food, clothes, cars and even the houses we live in. Any manufacturing process creates waste materials, effluents and wasted energy. To dispose of these wastes we then need to use more water, energy, land and money. Even recycling which is far better than landfilling uses up energy, time and resources in terms of transportation, storage and treatment.

So our challenge should be to Prevent Waste and Protect the Environment.

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