| You heard it right. You can fight climate change and | | | | appliance to be manufactured by the appliance |
| global warming by repairing your television set and | | | | company, and we don't have an additional |
| other electronic appliances at home. You don't have | | | | non-biodegradable material at home. We don't have |
| to throw them away or give those appliances to the | | | | an added burden of disposing this material. |
| garbage truck or stock them in your attic. | | | | So what do we do? You say you don't know how to |
| These things are not just to be discarded because | | | | repair appliances. |
| they are useless. Or, say you have money, a credit | | | | Our point here is for you to learn these simple |
| card all ready to purchase a new appliance at home. | | | | "how-tos". There are more ways than one of |
| You don't need second hand appliances, or repaired | | | | shooting two birds with one shot. There's no excuse |
| ones. They just distract your viewing time. | | | | for a willing home buddy who has a dream of |
| But that's not the point. The moment you purchase a | | | | becoming a true environmentalist, or a stay-at-home |
| new television set, or washing machine or dryer at | | | | housewife who is more and ever creative when it |
| home, you're boasting the manufacture of new | | | | comes to fixing every problem in the home. |
| appliances. See, it's not a question of disposing | | | | Yes, I tell you. You can fix your television set, |
| (although responsible disposal is one of our | | | | washing machine, dryer, and many other electronic |
| responsibilities); it's a question of adding appliances or | | | | appliances at home. These things are |
| non-biodegradable things in our homes. Plus, the more | | | | non-biodegradable materials that are really a problem |
| businesses manufacture non-biodegradable materials, | | | | to dispose of. Give them to the garbage boys and |
| the more we emit carbon dioxide into the air. It's a | | | | they just pile them up with the rest of the garbage. |
| double whammy, hope you see it. | | | | Pile them up, too, in your backyard and they become |
| Here's the catch, to our 'kilometric' title. If we repair | | | | an eyesore, a real problem. |
| our appliances at home, we won't have an additional | | | | |