When it comes to saving the environment, we all have to do our part. Only by acting together can we hope to reduce, stop and maybe even reverse the damage we are doing to our planet. It’s all too easy to pass on the blame to other people; the government, the big business – even our neighbors (it doesn’t matter how much the people next door throw away, it doesn’t make it alright for you to do the same!)
I can’t be denied, however, that our governments do have to start pulling their weight when it comes to making genuine changes to help the environment. It’s all very well them making our wheelie bins smaller, but what use is that when they still produce tons of waste at every party conference? For once, however, the USA has made a change for the better – by cutting down the size of the US Census for 2010! Apparently the new one will printed on recycled paper and only be 10 questions long, taking only 10 minutes to complete! When you consider how many tens of millions of these documents they are going to have to produce, that’s a massive saving of paper from last time; not to mention the thousands of ink cartridges that will be spared! In fact, compared to the census 10 years ago, the Census Bureau will use 30% less ink for this one!
Finally, a world-leading government is practicing what it preaches!
