Simple Life Matters

In line with Earth Hour 2023. Let's start on helping with zero e-waste. What is the purpose of zero waste? The zero waste approach seeks to maximize recycling, minimize waste, reduce consumption and ensures that products are made to be reused, repaired or recycled back into nature or the marketplace. We commend Globe in their initiative with this program. Electronic waste (e-waste) refers to any old, non-working and end-of-life devices. These cover all electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and its components and are also referred to as Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), which is now considered as one of the fastest growing waste streams in the Philippines according to the DENR-Environmental Management Bureau. Old phones, broken electronic gadgets and their batteries contain toxic components (arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury) and plastic parts usually have the brominated flame retardant which are toxic when released to the environment. If disposed improperly, th...

Save Trees by printing less, told by my Japanese Colleague. I am currently working as an Office Engineer and I am working on  a Monthly Progress Report for our Construction Project. The report usually exceeds 400 pages and when our Assistant Commercial Manager review the report, he told me to think about saving trees by printing less. So what we did is to put those sections of the report consuming many pages on a CD instead of printing so were able to minimize the hard copy of the report.  Printers consume paper, toner chemicals, and power. Reduce printing and you directly reduce the impact on your environmental footprint.  According to an article from Linkedin, World Paper Free Day used to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday in October, but AIIM has recently moved it to a fixed date, November 6. On this day, businesses and people are encouraged to stop using paper for one day in order to stop being so reliant on paper.               ...