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National Walk to Work Day – 4th April 2026 This sustainability day is dedicated to encouraging us to walk to walk. Admitted, this means not hitting the snooze button so many times, walking has so many health benefits and according to Well ‘A 20 minute walk per day could cut your risk of premature death by a
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World Water Day – 22nd March 2026 Held annually on the 22nd March since 1993, this global environmental day focuses on the importance of freshwater. It raises awareness of the 202 billion people around the world who do not have access to safe water. If you’d like a list of environmental awareness days and sustainability awareness
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Trees Are The Key Awareness Week – 17th March 2025 – 23rd March 2025 Word Forests annual event, they plant trees, build schools, facilitate education and support a raft of women’s empowerment initiatives in rural Kenya. They plant there because trees in the tropics grow up to 10 times faster than anywhere else on the planet, making
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Global Recycling Day – 18th March 2026 Here’s another environmental awareness day for your calendar. Knowing that we are using finite resources, we have to look closely at what we are throwing away. This day was created to encourage and focus on why recycling is important and how we can reuse the precious resources we have
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The Big Plastic Count – 9th March 2026 – 15th March 2026 During a week in March, numerous schools, households, community groups, and businesses will unite to tally their plastic waste. In 2022, nearly 250,000 individuals participated in The Big Plastic Count, uncovering that close to two billion pieces of plastic packaging are discarded each week.
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World Wildlife Day – 3rd March 2026 This is a United Nations International day to celebrate the all the wildlife and around the world. Focusing on the importance of why these wildlife and plants are crucial to all life on this planet and why loss of habitat is affecting their survival. This date was specifically chosen
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World Wetlands Day – 2nd February 2026 World Wetlands Day is celebrated annually to mark the anniversary of The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands which was signed on 2nd February 1971 to protect wetland habitats which play such a vital role within our ecosystem. If you’d like a list of environmental awareness days and sustainability awareness days
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International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer – 16th September 2025 This is a key environmental day in history of when, in 1987, the the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was adopted. ‘As the treaty turns 35 on Ozone Day, we will remember how the Montreal Protocol ended one of the biggest threats ever
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Can you put paper receipts in recycling? The quickest answer is no you can’t recycle receipts. Here’s why and what you can do with them instead.
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Since I’ve started leading a more sustainable lifestyle, I noticed the changes I want to make (and have done) have a lot to do with habits; old habits and new habits. Us humans are creatures of habits, we learn what we see around us and, therefore, adopt those practices. They’re learned behaviours we repeat over