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5th Step to ZeroWaste - Say no to Paper Cup

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 which I use for coffee and bottle for water. Now my trash can looks empty after long work day also. This makes me proud of myself and my contribution towards planet by replacing cup with a water bottle and Ceramic cup. I am not only the person following this at my workplace; there are a couple of other people too. 

Did a small search about this habit and how it's creating an impact on the plane and found out following facts which blocked my mind and decided to share with all so that together we can multiply positive impact by taking necessary steps. 

 As a single person if I can avoid 4.5 tons of co2 emission.
Avoid the cutting trees which are spread in 2.3 square miles (that's 1472 acres forest we can protect). 

 If this positive impact can be multiplied by 100 people together, we can avoid 450 tons of co2 and more people join this mission we can avoid hundreds and thousands of tons of co2 in just very few short years.

 To understand how much positive impact we can create together check out these numbers. 
  • Top 5 populated cities in the USA has a population of 19 million. 
  • If these cities completely avoid or switch to Reusable cups we can save 3.42 Million tons of Co2 per year. 
  • Together these cities can save 1.7 Million Square miles of forest. 

I am contributing for better tomorrow what about you? 

 Let's share this article with #nopapercups #saveplant #savetrees #ReduceReuseRecycle #zerowaste  so that it can reach out to people thinking about creating a positive impact.
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