Ordering bank statements on email instead of regular postage

If you regularly throw away your bank statement after reading them, then you can help reduce paper consumption by seeking email bank statements instead of postage. Simply talk to your bank and ask if they can send statements to your email address instead of postage on paper.

This will help reduce paper consumption by a great deal, especially if you live in a country that does not recycle paper then you'll also help reduce paper waste.

Buying coffee in tin cans instead of packages

For those of you who make coffee to drink at home and drink and live in a country that recycles waste, this is a good suggestion for you. In many supermarkets, coffee beans are for sale in packaging as well as tin cans. Plastic packaging of coffee is pictured below and is non-recyclable:

In countries that recycle certain waste- which does not include plastic, buying coffee in cans helps reduce waste. Pictured below is tinned coffee which is recycable:

If you are a strong environmentalist or wish to contribute towards the environment by producing less waste and more recycling then you are encouraged to buy canned coffee instead of packaged ones.

Adopting a pet from an animal shelter instead of a pet shop

I understand that not all cities or countries have animal shelter programs, but for those countries that do, people should adopt pets from there instead of buying them at a pet store.

Animal shelters are voluntary programs and rely on donations from various sources in order to support abandoned/uncared animals. Pet shops on the other hand keep animals from controlled breeding and profit from selling animals. Pet shops do not rescue abandoned animals either. They just sell animals born into their care.

Animal shelter organizations on the other hand are voluntary and usually don't charge for giving pets for adoption since animal care is their obvious goal. Some shelter organization may charge to be able to get funds for supporting their work, but other than that they are non for profit.

By adopting a pet from an animal's shelter, you can make a difference by reducing their workload. The longer an animal stays in a shelter, the more the shelter will have to pay for food and care, including medical care. The more animals adopted from a shelter, the less the workload there is on an organization and more resources saved.

By adopting from a shelter, you will be helping support such organizations instead of buying from corporate pet shops. So whenever readers are considering adopting a pet, remember to turn to an animal shelter instead of a pet store. This way you'll be supporting animal care a great deal.