How to reduce,reuse and recycle in a daily lives either at home, work or at school?
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reduce - buy items with as little packaging as possible; conserve water and electricity - for example, take short showers instead of baths, install a programmable thermostat, turn off computers, lights, and non-essential electrical items when they are not being used, etc...
reuse - don't waste items by throwing away useful stuff - reuse them! For example, either reuse the plastic bags you get at the grocery store (bring them back and ask the bagger to reuse them or through the store's own collection container) or better yet, bring your own environmentally friendly reusable bags; use reusable items in your lunch (lunch box, cloth napkin, metal silverware, etc... and reuse them every day); donate good quality clothes in good condition to those who can use them; etc..
recycle - find out about the criteria and conditions for your community's recycling program and recycle whatever they will accept! If your community doesn't have a good program, find out how you can recycle elsewhere or how you can help to make it better.
These are just a few ways you can help
Good luck!
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I don't know about where you live but we have a site called mendocinocountyfreecycle. It is where you can recycle stuff you don't need or want anymore. You can pick up some great stuff. I just go a great working Yamaha stereo. So try using your county name and then freecycle. Also started a rebuild center for building materials and such all the money made from that goes to our local food bank. Good Luck
I use old jars from foods I eat rather than buy new containers. My friends use to make fun of how I bring food to work. It makes it easier to give food to friends, since In either would have to worry of returning containers. A long time ago, we use to put screws in baby jars. Now people buy plastic containers for them.
@home: when purchasing anything, try and pick the items with least packaging, and preferably the packaging should be easily recyclable. and of course, if you can live without it, consider not buying it at all. chemical cleaners for example, often have alternatives that are natural. bring along at least one shopping bag when shopping (i've re-used mine for a year, i think) and refuse bags from the cashier - i bring along a plastic one i got from before because i can fold it easily into my handbag and so won't forget it. it hasn't torn yet! try and buy local, which reduces energy used in transporting the goods to where you are.
in the home, consider changing your faucets to those that use less water. other water use reducing options are changing toilets to ones with a half-flush option (or you can fill up a water bottle with water and put it in the cistern; you get the same flush pressure but will use less water), shower heads, and washing your car from a bucket. when buying new appliances (washing machine, fridge, tv, pc monitor, fan, lighting, kettle, iron, air-conditioning etc.) buy energy-efficient models. some tips to minimise energy use of air-conditioning are freely available online.
for recycling, i hang four bags on the wall for paper, plastic, glass and metal. so then it becomes easy to just pop in the item into the proper bag, and then when they become full, i take them to the recycling centre. this can earn you some money, but usually i just give them away for free. in addition to recycling, consider composting garden and some kitchen waste, and make fertiliser for your garden. these two combined reduces my household rubbish to less than 1 garbage bag per week for a household of 4 adults.
@ work: i turn off the power supply to my laptop when i'm out at lunch. if convenient, you can use public transport, but my home-to-office is not connected by public transport. when buying a new car, consider fuel consumption. if two persons commute in a family, the one driving the longer distance should have the more efficient car. tips for efficient driving are also freely available on the net. you can also write in a suggestion for your office to become more efficient such as recycling paper waste, recycling printer cartridges, replacing old printers and fax machines with ones that print double-sided, encouraging colleagues to print non-official things like drafts on the reverse side of waste paper. turn off lights if everyone is leaving the office for lunch or an outing/meeting.
@school: turn off fans and lights when not needed. i remember reading about a school that installed awnings at classes that get direct sunlight - which resulted in the fans being used much less, and saved the school money in electricity bills.
i have a friend (in the uk) who managed to make his house efficient enough that he uses only 4 m3 of water a month. and yes, he still showers twice a day. :) basically it's just thinking about how you can avoid accidentally using more than you wanted to!
At home
Supermarket shopping...
Buy meat, fruit, veg, etc, loose (or at butcher's counter) rather than packaged in plastic trays;
Re-use the bags they provide for fruit and veg, they last weeks and weeks;
Take your own cloth bags, say "no thanks" to plastic carriers;
Use paper instead of plastic wherever possible, eg egg cartons, these will go in your recycling bin or even your compost bin;
Ditto glass bottles rather than plastic, glass can be recycled.
There are lots of ways to recycle or reduce. One way is by re- using our grocery bags either at home in our small trash cans or taking them back to the store(many store have container where you can return them to be recycled). Another way that I think of is by cooking at home more there by reducing paper waste that come from fast food stores.
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