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Every consumer makes two important choices that affect the amount of waste:
What products you choose to buy or use
At the point of purchase or use, as consumers you have the opportunity to consider a product, its packaging, how it is constructed, whether it can be reused or recycled, and whether it is made from recycled materials. By choosing recycled, recyclable or reusable products, you can extend the functional life of a product and divert it from the landfill.
Purchasing recycled products also helps by creating a market for the recycled material, "completing the loop." Consumer demand is a powerful factor affecting the waste stream, and your decisions make a huge difference.
How we choose to dispose of the product when finished with it.
Once a product has reached the end of its functional life, as consumers you decide how it will enter the waste stream. Reusing, recycling or composting waste materials is always the ideal option.
Exnora Environmental Education and Research Institute (EEERI) is promoted by Exnora International foundation, Chennai with an objective to promote environmentally relevant research. The Exnora research will cover funded research and community based participatory research activities for ethical, empowering, emancipatory and holistic research outcome to protect mother earth from environmental degradation. The research institute will focus its activities to conduct research, training and consultancy, to disseminate research findings to environmental policy makers and above all to create a cadre of Exnora researchers who are so far remained as researched.
Exnora Research
Aim:
Through research PRESERVE the PLANET and by UNITING & USING HUMAN RESOURCES leverage NATURAL RESOURCES on a WORLD SCALE"
Objectives:
- Mobilizing, empowering and emancipating communities through community based participatory research to transform its immediate environ by preserving nature and preventing environmental degradation, thereby improving the quality of life of the common man.
- Transforming Cities, towns and villages by training a cadre of visionary community based participatory researchers who recognize the value of environmental beautification to sustain economies through waste to wealth strategies, and repel the elements of environmental decay.
- Utilizing the research findings, to initiate locally relevant actions and practices that create visual beauty into public spaces, raising property values, reducing crime, enhancing the local economy, and improving public health.
- Creating an awareness and consciousness raising among the members of the community the need for research to identify the decision points for perceptual, attitudinal and behavioural changes to launch programs and projects for waste management and healthy living.
Participating in Community based research the local communities generate research findings and apply the research information to create awareness of waste issues, promotion of sustainable alternatives and knowledge to make decisions for personal and community based actions.