Why We Boldly Go: Making an Impact by Confronting Big Problems

In Colombia there are quite beautiful landscapes, but you turn around and it’s totally full of garbage. We need to find a way to eliminate single-use plastics from our consumption culture. I know that with small changes and with great responsibilities we can achieve a sustainable world.  

So, on a bigger scale, I think what is the impact that each of our daily activities generates on the environment? There are hundreds of ways to reduce the daily use of plastics. In our home we try to think as a family which moments we're generating plastic waste. Each one of us has a bag with our cutlery, a cup that can be reduced in size and additionally, a bottle that we use and in this way, we are generating alternatives to reduce our impact as a family on the environment.  

What other things have we implemented here? Through communication with the restaurant that provides us with lunch every day, we have created a Tupperware culture. We deliver the container to the restaurant and the restaurant gives us the food to consume. What else? When we buy our food or our clothes, we bring our backpack or our own degradable bags. They are small actions, but with these small actions we inspire others to be better.  

The best possible result that Trane Technologies can bring through Operation Possible is the change in culture for each and every one of the members of the organization. And, on a larger scale, for our suppliers and clients. We need to think about the entire production cycle

from when things are raw materials, to the final waste that we generate as individuals, as households and as a company.

So the example starts at home. The example begins with ourselves. I know that together we can achieve a better world.