Reduce, Reuse
and Recycle
Justin Xerri
Three great ways YOU can eliminate waste and protect your environment!
Waste, and how we choose to handle it, affects our world’s environment — that’s YOUR environment, everything that surrounds you including the air, water, land, plants, and man-made things. And since by now you probably know that you need a healthy environment for your own health and happiness, you can understand why effective waste management is so important to YOU and everyone else. The waste we create has to be carefully controlled to be sure that it does not harm your environment and your health.
Reduce
Reduce/Reduction: to make something smaller or use less, resulting in a smaller amount of waste. “Source reduction” is reducing waste before you purchase it, or by purchasing products that are not wasteful in their packaging or use. A key part of waste “reduction” is “conservation” - using natural resources wisely, and using less than usual in order avoid waste.
Reuse
You can “reuse” materials in their original form instead of throwing them away, or pass those materials on to others who could use them too! Remember, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure!
Recycle
Recycling occurs when you save and take reusable materials to places where they can be remade into either the same product or new products, rather than to just toss them in the trash. Making new items from recycled ones also takes fewer energy and other resources than making products from brand new materials.
Don’t throw away anything that
can be recycled!
Here is a list of things you should always recycle (or reuse!) …
- Magazines
- Metal
- Newspaper
- Aluminum Cans
- Building Materials
- Cardboard
- Acid Batteries
- Chemicals
- Electronic equipment
- Glass (particularly bottles and jars)
- Oil
- Paint
- Paper
- Plastic Bags
- Plastic Bottles
- Steel Cans
- Tires
- White Goods (Appliances)
- Wood
- Paper
