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• Familiarise yourself with what is a "Hazardous Waste". Here is a a list ACAP would like you to print and place somewhere in your house or workplace.

• Never flush garbage of any kind down your toilet. Cigarette butts, disposalble diapers, dental floss, sanitary products, condoms and the like, create problems for your harbour.

• Never pour oil, antifreeze, transmission fluid or brake fluid into storm sewers. Check with your local garage about safe disposal of these products.

• Never pour nail polish remover, chlorine bleach, medicine, paint or paint remover down the drain. Save them for safe disposal at Household Hazardous Waste Days.

• Never litter.

• Use "green" environmentally friendly products.

• Practice the three R's - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

• Buy products with the "Ecologo" and you will know they are less harmful to the environment.

• Start an environment club in your neighbourhood or at school and share ideas to help solve environmental problems facing your community.

• Clean up after your pet. Animal waste runs off lawns and curbs and contributes to pollution in the rivers and the harbour.

• If you take lunch to school or work, use a re-usable plastic container and take home your lunch bag.

• If your area has a recycling program for newspapers, glass, plastic or cans, be sure to use it.

• Organize and participate in special school yard and neighbourhood litter clean-up campaigns.

• Write letters to the editors of your local newspapers to make your views on the environmental issues known.

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