Sustainability depicts the intricate connection between human actions and the environment, but it has a depth most people are unaware of. Here are a few lesser-known facts that should help improve your approach towards the earth - 

1. It takes more energy and more water to make a kilogram of paper rather than a kilogram of stainless steel, due to the various processes involved in wood chipping, chemical treatment, dyeing etc. Reuse paper! Send it to a recycling plant and buy recycled paper instead of fresh stacks. 

2. Aluminium can be recycled infinitely without any material loss - because it's intensely malleable and can be melted and remolded without degradation of its original properties, but it's also one of those metals that we throw away most in the form of foil and soda cans.

3. There's risk of more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. Coral reefs, which sustain 25% of marine life, are dying, just because we can't walk a few steps to the dustbin instead of littering the beaches.

4. Regular bulbs use up a significant amount of energy through electricity consumption and emissions - use LED bulbs instead. 

5. The fast fashion industry (which involves quickly producing and discarding cloth to keep up with the latest trends), contributes to 10% of global carbon emissions, emphasising the fatal flaw of overconsumption. 

6. The choice of food we eat also impacts nature; producing a kg of meat requires 10-20 times more water than producing a kg of grain. 

The only person who can resolve these rapidly growing issues is...

YOU. 

We should do everything we can consciously to make sure global warming, climate change, etc. etc. are in the history textbooks and are not present conflicts for our future generations.