Someone said that the Earth's biggest problem is that everyone thinks it's someonelse's responsibility to save it! Unfortunately that seems to be true but there are a lot we can do to help. Here are some simple things we can do.
To reduce plastic:
Use reusable fabric or even old plastic shopping bags that we had before. We can designate a bag for each category of groceries like non meat foods, frozen or non frozen meats, detergents and personal hygiene products...etc.
Recycle any plastics you have as containers for other things like in the picture above.
Divide your garbage as much as possible even if your garbage collector doesn't accept them divided but by dividing, you'll make it easier for the companies that recycle plastic as it will cost them less due to the semi clean state of the plastic and in turn, it will encourage them to recycle a larger amount.
Finally, and this requires a bit of effort, we can contact our favorite companies that use plastic packaging and ask them to adopt this paper bottle that decomposes after only 1 year from this beautiful company called 'Natrual Vegan' .
To use less energy:
Disconnect wifi, mobile data, GPS...etc. whenever you don't need them. It's true that they only use a small extra amount of energy, but when you add that energy up for everyday of the year, you'll find that you've consumed an enormous amount of energy for no good reason.
Don't have too many accounts of social media or any other online platform because every account has a set memory space to save its data and that memory needs energy and so you indirectly consume more energy by having these accounts. Again, it seems small, but if you add it up, it'll make a great difference.
Don't take the car everywhere; walk or ride a bike if the distance isn't too far and take public transportation whenever possible to reduce CO2 emissions.
Other things we can do:
Use less water.
Use less paper. What's the matter with reading or studying it on the screen?!
Instead of using paper planners, there are great mobile apps that sync with laptop apps to help you plan and take notes of everything you need to like Evernote and Zoho Notebook
Stop using any unnecessary products in which animal material were used like false eyelashes or ostrich feather dusters, or any animal based bristles brushes...etc. Know what goes into the products you're using and stop using the ones that use animal material especially the ones that brutally kill the animals. This is all to save our wildlife which is essential for our own survival!
Follow environment and animal welfare organizations such as PeTA as they know what brutal practices against animals are being practiced around the world and as a result, we can help and be informed of what to use and what to avoid.
Lastly, let's make not caring for the environment a deeply shameful deed that must be scolded! It's about really making that a top priority for everyone and those of us who still don't get it, maybe a little shaming and scolding will make them get it.
In the end I just want to say that I wish if we love the Earth and truly be considerate of it. It's our planet that provides food, water, and air for us for free! Shouldn't we at least thank it by being considerate and caring?! I mean, without it we don't exist! And if we really care about our children and grandchildren, then we must make sure we leave the planet in good health for them so that they will still have air to breathe, water to drink, and food to eat!