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| reducing, reusing, recycling |
There are many ways you can make a difference in your own home, your community and your business. We've all heard of the 3 Rs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - they work well as a guide for conserving resources. Reducing is the most important step - if you can find ways to avoid buying or using things, you don't have to figure out what to do with them later. Questions to ask when buying things:
Reusing is about giving things a second life. Questions to ask for reuse include:
Places for reuse: schools, libraries, doctors' offices, thrift shops, charities, freecycle.org (a website for giving things away), kijiji.ca Recycling is the final R because it involves energy and resources to process materials into new products. There are two parts to recycling:
If you only do step 1, you're not really recycling!
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