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Recycle bins make recycling clean and easy
If you really analyze the way you spend the shopping and trash disposal, you can stop and take a look at other efforts to cut down on under use of throwaway materials. Waste removal and waste management from a landfill perspective is a huge cost to modern living. Transportation, treatment, and storage for garbage is a never ending cost.
Recycling McGyver to the rescue! McGyver is a famous television show where this brilliant agent used everyday objects to deliver ultimate payback , mission completion, and weapons efficiency. Everyday recycling can use that same approach. once your eyes have been opened to the possibilities no unused paper clip will go to the trash bin again?
Every day common ways to use overflowing household items can bring recycling opportunity back to your everyday life. That’s the most efficient way to streamline consumer waste. Trash removal and landfill utilities cost money and rob environmental land and water tables of green potential. Even using a magazine as a TV tray eliminates spills and reduces paper towel and napkin usage.
The versatility of recycling magazines seems to bring a huge new utility for secondary use. A stack of magazines will never just be “thrown out” again. Imagine using magazine pages as a paper cup folded origami style every time you wanted to use a Dixie cup? For the rest of your life? One town’s doing this could save a landfill!!!
I just read a fascinating book which details amazing recycling opportunities every day. But I had discovered some of them. But this book goes beyond the level of happenstance utility. This is recycling science for the everyman. It makes recycling fun to be looking for the next daily opportunity to recycles.
Leave a stack of unused (or embarassingly unread) magazines or papers in your kitchen corner. When it’s time to remove pans or pots from the stove, use the magazine as a pot holder. This saves cleaning up a counter 7-8 times a week. Sponges rest. Cleaner bottles last longer.
I also save plastic forks and spoons and whatever flatware from picnics or corporate lunchrooms. The cleaning attendants or other employees throw these out at their desks and use them once if at all. Lunch counters and fast food places stuff them in bags. The stuff dives in the trash. A waste.
I usually speak up before people throw them out, still wrapped in cellophane with the extra napkins behind the, grab a few of these and use them a few times before wasting them.
With a little know how (make that a lot of know how) you can McGuyver your way to recycling gold. The smallest type of things you can recycle in everyday home life an make a huge difference in consumer goods and materials waste.
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