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- Prefer the local products, with reduced transportation need

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- Prefer quality over quantity. Suzuki refer to prefer durable goods that last, so you don’t need to replace
them so often.

- Take care about your sources of energy and prefer renewable energy

- Prefer healthy products, avoid toxic components

- When possible, look for products issued from recycled materials

- Request authorities to act to increase the regulation regarding environmental compliance of products

- Encourage environmental leaders and innovators

- Make an insight effort to forget about commercial messages telling you to buy more, be more distant to
advertising

- Slow down and take time for yourself, and to develop greener habits.

1.4 Best practices about sustainable consumerism

Case 1. Free public transportation in Faroe Island.

The city of Tórshavn, the capital of The Faroe Islands, is promoting a shift from private car use to public
transport through economic incentives, i.e. by making public bus transport free for everyone.

Traditionally the only means of public transport on the Faroe Islands has been buses or ferries. The bus
service in Torshavn was rarely used due to an infrequent service – a service that people were unwilling to
pay for.