No need to mention how plastic is affecting our environment.Let's see how small changes you can do to bring a big change in the world's environment1. Use bamboo toothbrush instead of plastic ones2. Do not throw plastic packets of curd, milk or snacks. Make an eco brick with them. For more details go to the below link <a href="https://thesustainabilityproject.life/blog/2018/10/07/ecobricks-plastic-solved/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thesustainabilityproject.life/blog/2018/10/07/ecobricks-plastic-solved/</a>3. Always carry your own cloth made grocery bag for shopping. Try to buy loose groceries not the packaged ones.4. Use wet garbage and vegetables waste to make compost.

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Spring cleaning is a thoughtful, slow process to declutter where we slowly consider each knick-knack and decide what to do with those old tee shirts, magazines, refrigerator finds, and stuff lying around the house.
There is a much faster process, where we take a big bag and fill it with things that simply annoy us. This Annoying Bag would digest the stuff we don’t know what to do with, or simply don’t like now.

That Annoying Bag Of Clutter

Self Improvement

“Use this time at home to take inventory of your possessions — and to re-evaluate your relationship with them. Cultivate an awareness of what you have. On a practical level, this will prevent overbuying things, but I hope it will also bring a renewed appreciation for all that you do have.”

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Getting Rid of Stuff

<ul><li>Many towns, states are countries are banning everything from plastic bags, plastic straws, checkout bags, and food plastic containers.&nbsp;A lot of food and beverage companies have made a switch to non-plastic items.</li><li>Plastic that is single-use/disposable is being banned across the world, and many restaurants and cafes have compostable alternatives and are also adding a small charge to the customers' bill.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Country Wide Bans On Plastic

Compostable Tableware, bags and packaging isn't really a solution and is being unadvisedly chosen as the best alternative.The environmental benefits of compostables are not what they are touted as, because an increase of compostables in the rivers from the waste streams could have unpredictable consequences, and will create more and more trash.

The Problem With The Alternatives

Recyclable Plastic and the effort towards it isn't problem-free.There are trash contamination issues with plastic and 79% of it isn't even recycled, but landfilled, or burned.

Recycling Plastic

While compostable products are termed better than plastic, there are certain issues like toxic chemicals contaminating the food.The sustainability of compostable products is in question as the environmental impact isn't entirely clear.

Compostable isn't Perfect

Certain restaurants and cafes are starting to promote the old, long-forgotten culture of using durable, reusable, refillable containers, reducing the consumption-based 'disposable' usage everyone is now accustomed to.

Back To Durable Reusable Refillable

On January 1, Berkeley, California rang in the New Year by putting a new rule in place requiring all cafés and restaurants to start charging 25 cents for disposable cups. The cups, in addition to lids, utensils, straws, and clamshells, must also now be certified compostable.

Plastic To-Go Containers Are Bad, but Are the Alternatives Any Better? | Civil Eats

Research reveals that knowing yourself better results in stronger relationships, a sense of purpose, greater well-being, self-acceptance, and happiness.Knowing yourself will make you a better manager, colleague, parent, spouse, and friend.

Importance of Self-Awareness

It means paying attention to yourself and knowing whether you're happy with what's happening in your world.It means understanding your personality, your values, your relationships, and your beliefs.

Self-Awareness

<ul><li>Introspection is the process of trying to access your internal psychological processes, judgments, perceptions, or states.</li><li>Self-reflection increases your ability to exercise control over your emotions. It involves the examination, contemplation, and analysis of your thoughts, feelings, and actions.</li><li>Insight is the awareness of a solution to a problem and the result of self-reflection and introspection.</li></ul>

Elements of Self-Awareness

<ul><li>Don't think about yourself all the time.</li><li>Don't ask why. "Why do I feel this way?" Our brains will point to the most obvious answer that confirms our pre-existing beliefs.</li><li>Avoid asking yourself a question that is centered around the problem. "What difficulty am I facing right now?"&nbsp;</li></ul>

Introspection: What not to do

Ask solution-focused questions.&nbsp;It will help you to find potential answers to the problem and increase your confidence in your ability to solve future problems.<ul><li>Ask "What am I feeling right now?" to help you name your emotions.</li><li>Ask "What is a possible solution to this problem?" and then "What is one way to move toward creating this solution?"</li></ul>

The Right Questions

Instead of jumping to quick solutions, schedule at least 15 minutes daily to sit down and think without interruptions.<ul><li>Make reflection the first activity of your day.</li><li>Write down on paper what you are feeling.</li><li>Don't allow negativity or blame.</li></ul>

Cultivate Self Awareness

When faced with a challenge, where do you find the insight to move your life forward? Last year, over fifteen million books were sold in the self-help genre.1 That doesn't account for the videos, courses, and workshops that fuel this multibillion-dollar industry. Include business and diet books, and that number balloons to over $1.7 billion spent on advice-seeking...

Here Are The 4 Simple Introspection Steps That Will Boost Self Awareness

<h3>Being Eco-friendly is not confined to experts and environmentalists.</h3><ul><li>According to the Yogic concept of Ahimsa, or Non-Violence, man should not be aggressively destroying the environment.</li><li>There are simple ways to Go Green, and can be followed by anyone.</li></ul>

Go Green

75 percent of home electricity is consumed while plugged in but not in use.&nbsp;

Turn Off Electronic Devices

Use LED light bulbs at your home, as they use 60% less energy.

Use LED Light

Avoid buying, using or eating/drinking in plastic as much as possible.

Don't Buy Plastic

<h3>You can recycle old clothes, appliances and other household items to help save the environment.</h3>

Recycle

Find a local organic farmers market in your locality and switch to Organic produce.

Switch to Organic Foods

There is choice now to wear sustainable, environmentally friendly clothes like organic cotton, bamboo, hemp, linen, and silk.

Envoirment friendly Clothes

Even while washing clothes, if hot water isn't used, we save 500 pounds of CO2 emission in a year.

Laundry Water

The cars we drive have carbon emissions and we can become carbon neutral by offsetting our pollution by funding renewable energy projects.We can also switch to Solar energy products, like solar panels and even electric cars.

Reduce Carbon Emissions by Going Solar

Let the party or candidate you vote for, or donate funds to, be the one who is environmentally conscious.

Support a Green Candidate

Just by not using a dryer for your clothes, and choosing to dry them out in the sun, you can save 700 tons of CO2 emissions per year.You can also ride a bicycle, and walk short distances instead of driving a gas-guzzling car.

Reduce use of Appliances

Yoga Inspiration: Think about ahimsa, the principle of nonviolence. You're probably not actively dumping dioxin into rivers or otherwise behaving in a blatantly violent way toward the environment, but are there smaller ways in which you do more harm to the planet than you'd like?

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Small Habits Brings Big Change

Tips to reduce plastic waste

That Annoying Bag Of Clutter

Getting Rid of Stuff