WHAT US AS INDIVIDUAL CAN HELP TO PREVENT POLLUTION

If you really want to do something to prevent our Mother Earth from Pollution, then firstly you take a step forward. My lecturer, Ms. Tina Lights showed as one of the videos of Al Gore. He served as the vice president of United States. According to him, there are ten things you can do and how much Carbon Dioxide you'll save doing them. He's right.

Here are the ten things that he mentioned:

• Change a light ~ Replacing one regular light bulb with a compact fluorescent light will save 150 pounds of Carbon Dioxide a year.

• Drive Less ~ Walk, Bike carpool or take a public bus more often. You'll save one pound of Carbon Dioxide for every mile you don't drive.
• Recycle More ~ You can save 2,400 pounds of Carbon Dioxide per year by Recycling just half of your household waste.
• Check Your Tires ~ Keeping your tires inflated properly can improve gas mileage by more then three percent. Every gallon of gasoline saved keeps twenty pounds of Carbon Dioxide out of the atmosphere!
• Use Less Hot Water ~ It takes a lot of energy to heat water. Use less hot water by installing a low-flow shower head (350 pounds of CO2 saved per year) and washing your clothes in cold or warm water (500 pounds per year)
• Avoid Products With A Lot Of Packaging ~ You can save 1,200 pounds of Carbon Dioxide if you cut down your garbage by 10 percent.
• Adjust Your Thermostat ~ Moving your Thermostat just two degrees in the winter and up two degrees in the summer could save you about 2,000 pounds of Carbon Dioxide per year.
• Plant A Tree ~ A single tree will absorb one ton of Carbon Dioxide over it's lifetime.
• Turn Off Electronic Devices ~ Simply turning off your Television, DVD player, Stereo, Computer and your Computer Monitor when you're not using them will save thousands of pounds of Carbon Dioxide per year.

As a student, the first thing that I will do to help prevent pollution are recycling things that can be reuse, keeping our environment clean, take a public bus instead of own car and unplugging the appliances when you are not using it. This steps can help to prevent pollution. Every little helping hand of everyone can help our earth if we added all our concern.