I support environmental protection and believe we can all do our parts by practising “Green” actions at home and at workplace. Build the environmental awareness in our kids and lead them to follow the good examples and the effort can go a long way.

Something meaningful by David Haahr (extracted from www.aforestry.com):
“We have borrowed this planet and the RIGHT TO LIVE HERE from our children and we owe it to them to take care of their planet and give it back to them better then we found it.”

Would like to share some recycling and reusing efforts that are worth practising at home in this Go Green Episode 1. Thanks to my mum as some practices are passed down from her. The benefits are many like environmental protection, cost savings, setting good examples to the kids, promoting some creative ideas along the way and…… So why not?

1) Paper boxes (eg. tissue boxes, game boxes, electronic product boxes)
exercise art and craft skill here to create i) handy boxes for storage of jewelleries, stationery items, toys etc. ii) “piggy” banks iii) magazine holders iv) friendly signages at home v) bookmarks vi) cards vii) compartments in drawers and others

2) Used plastic/glass containers
i) contain salt, sugar, flour, sweets, cookies, sauces, liquid toiletry items and others ii) paint on glass containers and create self-designed vases and others

3) Old clothes
used as rag and colourful old pieces can be cut as materials for artwork

4) Tin containers (eg. mooncake boxes)
used to contain sewing kits, cards, small items like toy figurines etc. and as compartments in drawers and others.

5) Old torned blankets
cut out the beautiful cartoons and pictures on the blanket to create beautiful artwork

6) Ice cream sticks
painted and used for kids’ art and craft and as base of reused boxes

7) Traditional calendars, old diaries and one-sided used copy papers
for the kids to take down notes, draw etc and to jot down my daily instructions for my domestic helper, always practise printing on both sides of paper (wherever possible)

8) Water for rinsing handwashed clothes
wash balcony and compound outside the house

The examples can go on and on and so just let your imagination go creative! Will continue in Episode 2…

So next time before you discard these items, think twice on how you could recycle and reuse them. Before you depart for your next shopping trip, you might want to bring along your reusable bags:)

Most importantly, REMEMBER, our children, their children and grandchildren and so forth will benefit from our thoughtful practices.