You know it’s dangerous to throw compact fluorescent light bulbs, medications, and other household hazardous waste into the trash, but it can be hard to figure out what to do with it.
It’s true that in most cases you’ll have to make a special effort to responsibly get rid of these items. But, luckily it’s not all that hard if you’re willing to do a little research and some advance planning.
To read some common guidelines on recycling some common items, click here.
Reduce, reuse, recycle — most of us make a habit of recycling, while the first two “Rs” go ignored. However, we can reduce how much stuff we need to recycle by reusing what we already have. Pass along usable goods to other people instead of throwing stuff in the garbage, and people will do the same for you.
More about reusing stuff, here.
Breathe new life into old objects and reduce landfill waste by diverting leftover odds and ends that would be relegated to the dumpster into useful items.
Call it repurposing, call it recrafting, call it creative reuse, or call it trash transformed. No matter what you call it, this concept of “cradle to cradle” is one of the tenants of green living. It means that a product’s lifecycle doesn’t have to end up forever rotting away in a landfill. It can be endlessly reincarnated into useful items.
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