Students from around the world calculated their class mean and standard deviations for their footprints and posted them on our world map.
Do you see differences across the globe? If so, why do you think those differences exist?
Did you use the calculator to try to reduce your footprint down to the average from a citizen of another country? What changes would you have to make to lower your footprint in this way? Are you going to try and take some of these actions in your daily life?
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Reusable Items
I believe that using reusable items will help decrease the amount of plastic being thrown away. Reusable items can be used more than once so instead of using single use items and throwing them away after one use, you can use reusable items for a long time. This will have a major impact on the amount of plastic bags, plastic containers(single use), etc being thrown away. For example, if you bring your own reusable bag every time you go grocery shopping, then you don't have to purchase a new single use plastic bag each time.