Respect Planet Earth

Dear Planeteers,   Thank you so much for your continuous interest on this website, where you get information on contributing to a better planet. At the end of the day, it's choices we make for adopting a better lifestyle.   Today I am going to share my experiences about the changes I made to make a positive impact on the environment towards my goal of going zero waste. From the title you might guessed it Right, A digital wallet can reduce a lot of plastic waste. Also, help us maintain our finances better.  Let me start this article by sharing my experience with my recent Bank visit. When I was at the bank, they were quite surprised to know I do not have a checkbook or an ATM card for my account. Their first question was, How I manage to use my account? My answer was simple and straight, I use A Digital Wallet for money transfers, for paying at the stores, and I pay bills online. I explained them that I don't use plastic cards and checkbooks to red...

Dear Readers, Today I am going to share some simple data which makes you think about the impact of our normal daily habit on this planet,  which most us ignore or does not pay much attention.  It's been a couple of years I started adopting the environmentally friendly lifestyle.Nowadays I feel like sharing my thoughts and ideas with my fellow environmentalist or people looking for some information which they can use to help the environment so that the positive impact can be multiplied. One more thing about me is I love coffee and also I drink a lot of water on a given day.In this process, I started using lots of paper cups. One day I was reviewing my annual contribution to a better planet, in this process, I realized that my habit of using paper cups is creating a negative impact on the planet. So I not only decided to change but actually started implementing it for almost two years. I can feel I already started creating the positive impact.Following image shows cup w...

Dear Planeteers,  I am happy to see growing interest in one step at a time; I know some of you wanted more details about each topic. So today I am going to create an article on how we can replace plastic carry bags and move to cloth bags. I am going to keep my favorite theme "RefuseReduceReuseRecycleRot" concept while making this change.  Let’s start to Refuse new plastic bags at stores. We need to do this as our first step. When we don’t carry our bag with us, we are going to go with whatever store offers. So let's carry a bag always while going to shopping. My wife & I decided to keep at least two bags i n the car all the time so that we don't miss and buy a new bag or accept a plastic bag.  In last few years we might have purchased or accumulated plastic bags at our home. There are ways we can Reduce them by finding the alternative usage of these bags. We need to focus on reducing these bags. Once we reduce them, that will help us have clutter ...

Dear Planeteers, Today I am going to share something critical information.This changed the way we live. It's about plastic..nowadays it's very hard to find products without plastic. Let's understand how much plastic took over our life Toothbrush - made with plastic Body washes, moisturizers and other cosmetics packed in plastic. Milk containers - plastic Breakfast items such as bread, bagels are packed in plastic. Lunch box with plastic lids - some cases boxes are made with plastic. Spoons and forks made with plastic. Evening snacks packed in plastic bags or zip locks. Water what we consume is filed in plastic water bottles. Any juice or drinks filled in plastic bottles. Vegetables and fruits what we get from the store are in plastic bags. If you look at this, life is all filled up with plastic. But if this plastic is not recycled properly they end up in the landfills, water. It takes years to decompose this plastic in the land. That means we are con...