[Coral-List] Happy World Recycling Day

Wed May 18 19:22:41 UTC 2022

Thanks for the comments. All willing to recycle more and do each time more
and more to solve the real causes of the problems that face coral reefs.

In small islands and other distant coastal areas, there is a constraint of
transportation. Then contacting the industries interested according to the
amount of visitors and inhabitants, a possible solution may prevent
seawater pollution from exceeding the capacity of landfilling.

Great that at least in American Samoa there is Aluminum Recycling !!

The plastic should be a priority everywhere for recycling and of course to
reduce consumption of packaging. The mixture of materials should find a
responsible company that reuses for industrial purposes. All these
companies should be included in the Blue Economy. In our environmental
campaigns, we use these materials to make handicrafts with local fisher
communities.

It is relevant to watch critically, how coherent we all are with what we
conclude from our research. Those conclusions about how to save coral reefs
should guide us on what we eat, where we go, what transportation means we
frequently use, and what energy and water we spend, and what
are the preferences of packaging. All has to do with decisions that well
educated environmentally friendly consumers may support #LeadingByExample
within a #GlobalBehaviorChange #GlobalBehaviOURchange For example, we have
a diversity of fruit trees in our backyard  and our own home orchard !!

Nohora Galvis

Director and Researcher on Coral Reef Conservation Effectiveness

International Coral Reef Observatory Twitter: English @ICRIcolombia

Observatorio Internacional de Arrecifes Coralinos

Twitter: Español @ArrecifesCoral

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El mié, 18 may 2022 a las 13:13, Douglas Fenner (<
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com>) escribió:

> Thank you all.  Plus it is healthier and usually less costly, and we can
> feed many more people adequately that way, it helps fight malnutrition.
> I've transitioned to an almost completely plant diet.
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 4:44 AM Alina Szmant via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Have you transitioned to a mostly plant based diet? Especially giving up
>> beef and dairy? One-third of global warming and climate change is directly
>> attributable to raising and maintaining food animals,  from deforestation
>> to grow their feed, to pollution associated with their feces, to excess
>> water use,  to energy costs of growing, slaughtering and transporting their
>> remains.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dr. Alina M. Szmant,  CEO
>> CISME Instruments LLC
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Steve Coles via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
>> Date: 5/18/22 3:36 AM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: International Coral Reef Observatory <icrobservatory at gmail.com>
>> Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
>> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Happy World Recycling Day
>>
>> Our food wastes go into the compost bin, our bottles and cans go to the
>> recycling center and my electric car is powered by sunlight on my roof.
>> Anything more I can do?
>>
>> Steve Coles
>>
>> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 2:55 PM International Coral Reef Observatory via
>> Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>>
>> > Let us start being positive !!  On May 17, World Recycling Day is
>> > *celebrated
>> > with the aim of raising awareness in society about the importance of
>> > treating waste properly, so as not to contribute to climate change, and
>> > thus protect the environment*. On this date the importance of REDUCE,
>> REUSE
>> > AND RECYCLE is recalled.
>> >
>> > Coral Listers are scientists and coral reef researchers so we all know
>> > about the relevance of recycling.
>> >
>> > We want to have an indicator of how many of you recycle. So as by logic,
>> > the minority will be the ones who do not recycle. So please, if you
>> belong
>> > to the minority, share with us why you do not recycle and How you will
>> > start to recycle. If nobody replies, it means that all the coral listers
>> > recycle !!
>> >
>> > Nohora Galvis
>> >
>> > Director and Researcher on Coral Reef Conservation Effectiveness
>> >
>> > International Coral Reef Observatory Twitter: English @ICRIcolombia
>> >
>> > Observatorio Internacional de Arrecifes Coralinos
>> >
>> > Twitter: Español @ArrecifesCoral
>> >
>> > https://www.facebook.com/ICRObservatory/
>> >
>> > Instagram ICR_Observatory Youtube ICRI Colombia
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