How Purchasing Habits Can Drive Climate Change?
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Purchasing habits can have a big impact on climate change. This episode explores how the things we buy can contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
Going back to the time of celebrating the holiday season during the Pandemic, with online shopping the preferred gift giving method for many, we will likely generate even more waste mailing packages all over the country. In addition, over two billion Christmas cards are mailed every year, with enough paper to fill a football field 10 stories high. More than 38,000 miles of ribbon are thrown away and usually end up in landfills. Over the holidays, people discard half their yearly paper waste, mostly holiday wrapping and decorations—about nine billion tons. And each person wastes almost 100 pounds of food.
How Purchasing Habits Can Drive Climate Change?
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