Reduce Better Than Recycle

by Cheow Tsuey Xin


“Reduce, reuse, recycle” always use to promote environmental protection. Recycling is one of the processes to conserve our resources and toward a green environment in the country. Meanwhile, reduce also can help to promote environmental protection by reducing garbage or waste. It not only reduce in waste but also reduce in consumes.  

Eliz Chin, fresher of environmental protection said that she will use the reusable chopsticks to replace the wooden chopstick which can use only once. “I was influence by my college classmate and reuse can reduces the waste,” she added.

Actually, reduce is more effective than recycle to conserve the limited resources. If we reduce the use of resources, then it can reduce the garbage or waste in our life. In additional, it can reduce water pollution, air pollution and even global warming in the earth.

How to reduce waste:
-only buy the products that we need
-do not buy short term products which can use only once
-do not use or buy items with large amount


See also:
Change Your Life, Save The Earth
Recycle Our Resources
Reuse Our Resources
Video: The Effect of Waste