Well, you could look at this question and say. What’s the difference, honestly, how much of an impact could I possibly have on the environment. Or you could say. This country is getting polluted in every way, why even try to reduce my so called FOOT PRINT, I’m only one person, how much damage could I be causing.

Well the truth is TON’S, over 4 tons per year. That’s right one person creates the equivalent weight of over 3 cars of trash and carbon each and every year of our lives, if you live to 80 that’s 240 cars or 320 Tons of pollution you will leave for your children as well as the pollution they leave for theirs and so on, unless you start now by learning what you can do to reduce this process and teach your children the same.

Each year nearly 1 million trees (SEE FACTS) are cut down to print paper coupons. In that process, millions of gallons of fresh water are contaminated, greenhouse gases are released and tons of paper is forced into the waste stream (CONTAMINATION FACTS). One million trees is the equivalent of approximately 2,500 acres of trees-or clear-cutting these urban parks. Over 100 million trees are cut each year for Junk Mail alone.

So the answer to the question is simple “YES you should stop using coupons, and send back all of your junk mail to the post office for them to recycle. One person can make a huge difference.  However because the industry requires coupons and junk mail to promote products and businesses, if you want to save you need to use them. What you can do is collect your unused coupons, junk mail,  newspapers, cardboard and any other paper products and once a month or every six months even once a year, take them to a recycling center, they pay you for it. 

Today, the environmental problems facing the world are enormous. Earth’s finite resources are being stretched to the limit by rapid population growth, air, water and soil pollution, and much more. Global warming, spurred by our use of fossil fuels for energy and transportation as well as mass-scale agriculture and other human activities, threatens to push our planet beyond its ability to sustain human life unless we can meet the growing need for food, energy and economic opportunity within a sustainable environment.

In the face of such huge global problems, it is easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless, and to find ourselves asking, “What difference can one person make?” The answer is that one person can make all the difference in the world

Each of us has the power through our daily decisions and lifestyle choices to make our homes and communities more environmentally friendly, but our power doesn’t end there.

There is no question that solving many of the problems currently threatening our global environment will require the resources and enlightened action of government and industry. Yet, because government and industry exist to serve the needs of their citizens and customers, how you live your life, the demands you and your neighbors make for products and services that help to sustain rather than erode the environment, will influence those actions and, ultimately, the future of planet Earth.

Don't put it off, our planet can't handle much more.

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