Recycling is all well and good, but it's easy to forget that reusing products is another great strategy to help the environment. When reusing products you can be creative, taking things you normally would throw away and turning them in to products you would otherwise have to buy.
If you're stumped on how you do this with things you usually throw out, head to reusethis.co.uk. You can post problem items and members give suggestions as to what they can be used for. Also, you can go to their Archives section to browse earlier posts and see if your items have already been covered.
If you can't find a use for stuff you don't want, consider using freecycle.org. It's a website that allows people to give away goods, for free, to people in their community. The aim of the site is to keep down the size of landfills in the U.S., and what better way to get people to do what you want than by giving away free stuff?
However you do it, instead of watching your used goods get carted off with your trash, try reusing prodcuts to see the concrete benefits of your actions.
--Cody
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Cody, I love this post! Thanks for the great resources.
Ever heard of Terracycle?
article: http://readymade.com/projects/article/garbage_mogul
website: http://www.terracycle.net/index.htm
I hadn't heard of Terracycle, but they sound like a great company. It's great to see that with a little creativity you can turn mountains of trash into a successful business.
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