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Sustainable Solutions
Mindful Stewardship
Despite the fact that human activity is the biggest cause of the overconsumption of food, water, and natural resources, humanity also happens to be the most vital resource available to help build awareness to achieve our sustainable development goals. Currently there exists many sustainable solutions to reduce emissions from human consumption across major economic sectors like food, agriculture, land management, transportation, energy, and materials. In one way or another, solving the global climate change crisis, is going to rely on changing our human behaviours and habits. More specifically, we need to become more aware of what we eat, drink, buy, and use. To put it simply, our planet’s future rests on:
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THE 5 R’S OF ZERO WASTE
At AWS, we encourage our entire community to:
Rethink - consumer choices
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Refuse. - any single-use wastage
Reduce - energy & material usage
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Reuse - & repair whatever you can
Recycle - everything that’s left