Hello, everyone, and welcome back.
This video is for the British Council's LearnEnglish Teens website and their YouTube channel.
In today's video, I wanted to talk about a very important topic and that is cutting down on waste.
As a species, we are very wasteful of materials and resources, and it's not doing our planet any good at all.
We're actually destroying it.
Our decisions and consumption can affect our environment in a negative way.
And no matter what scientists say about moving to Mars, this is our only planet that we get to call home, and we need to start respecting it and treating it correctly, so that we don't just completely destroy it and ruin ourselves in the process.
So, with that said, here are some simple tips and some simple actions that you can add or incorporate into your lifestyle to help look after our planet.
Before I talk a little bit about some actions that you can take into changing your lifestyle to help the environment and to help cut down on waste, I just want to jog your memory about the three Rs, which are always important to remember and that is 'Reduce', 'Reuse' and 'Recycle'.
Reducing waste actually helps to prevent waste being produced in the first place, and it's probably one of the best ways to start off with because if you don't have waste in the first place, then we don't have the problem of disposing of it.
