Question

What can you as an individual do to reduce your consumption of the various natural resources ?

Answer 1

Hint: Natural resources such as water, woods, coal and petroleum, and so on, are vital to human existence. To preserve and protect our natural resources we should concentrate on the three essential R's. They reduce, reusing, and recycling.

Complete answer:
Normally natural resources are either renewable or non-renewable. Renewable resources are those resources that can be replicated in time. These involve living resources such as forests or non-living ones such as wind, water, solar power. Non-renewable resources, as the name suggests, are those that can no longer be accessed upon depletion of the available stock at a location. They keep decreasing as we use them. An example of a non-renewable resource is a mineral resource. Fossil fuels, which are made from the fossilized remains of prehistoric organisms, are also considered as non-renewable even though, given a few million years, they may regenerate themselves.
The following points list the potential ways we can reduce the consumption of different natural resources.
- Encouraging tree planting (afforestation) and preventing deforestation.
- Encourage the use of recycled paper
- Use the blank pages of the book. Don't scrap paper.
- Do not waste water.
- Fix leakage taps and tubing to conserve water.
- Use of the rainwater harvesting method.
- We can use renewable energy sources, such as hydroelectricity and solar energy.
- Walk or use bicycles to cover short distances to minimize the use of petrol.
- The use of public transport to reduce traffic and save fuel in places.
- Use of reusable Shopping Bags.

Note: The 5th of June is celebrated annually as World Environment Day. This day is celebrated to raise people's awareness of the environment and is run by the United Nations (UN). This year's theme is "Time for Nature" (2020). Reducing waste, as well as resource reuse and recycling, will help conserve natural resources.