Fly Less and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

You can make a conscious choice to fly less and reduce your carbon footprint.

Instead of flying off for a holiday, you can stay in Singapore and visit local attractions or natural habitats. Explore our local nature areas and discover the wonderful biodiversity of flora and fauna.

You can visit Wildsingapore for information on the various nature areas and the biodiversity found right here in Singapore.

Instead of taking the plane to visit someone overseas or to attend an overseas business meeting, consider staying here and making a video call using Skype, Google video chat, Google+ Hangouts, or other videoconferencing tools.

Avoid Printing ATM Receipts

The printing of ATM receipts not only wastes paper but also creates a litter problem.

There are more than 1,400 ATM machine locations in Singapore provided by the three local banks (DBS/POSB, UOB and OCBC). If there are ten people printing receipts from each ATM machine daily, we would end up with more than five million paper receipts annually.

This is not taking into account the fact that there are more than one ATM machine at each location and that there are more than five other banks with ATM machines. Imagine the paper wasted if we take all these into account.

In addition, the paper receipts are often found as litter around the ATM machines. So, choose not to print receipts and check your bank account online or update your bank book regularly to ensure that there is no discrepancy.

Image: Unnecessary litter by padday via Flickr

Try Carpooling and Carsharing

Carpooling and carsharing allows you to enjoy the benefits of a car without having to own one.

Carsharing

Carsharing allows you the freedom of using a car as and when you want it, without the worries of car ownership. You can book the car and collect it at selected locations.

Check out these carsharing schemes:

• Car Club
• KahShare
• WhizzCar

Carpooling

Carpooling is the shared use of a car between someone who has a car and those who wants to share the ride. You can also share a taxi ride. Read more