Buying in bulk helps to reduce waste. Composting is your friend. Create a compost bin and throw food scraps and various yard waste into your compost bin. You can use leaves and yard trimmings to supplement the compost.
Start recycling. Did you know that you can save 9 cubic yards of landfill space by recycling only one ton of cardboard? Utilizing trash removal and recycling services can help you to manage waste effectively. Go paperless. Most stores now offer digital versions of receipts, and you can also receive bills online or on your smart device rather than in the mail. You can feel good about saving money and resources. The following is a list of reuse activities that can be carried out by individuals and households.
One of the biggest impacts business and industry can make on reducing discards to landfills is to replace single-use shipping containers with reusable ones. Over the course of its lifetime, a 2-cubic-foot plastic, reusable shipping container making trips will replace single-use cardboard boxes, reducing waste by Reusable containers may have additional benefits, including reduced shipping damage due to sturdier containers and lower labor costs associated with assembling and breaking down single-use boxes.
Deterrents to reusable shipping containers include higher initial costs, aesthetics of containers after several uses, the need to return containers, and storage room for containers. Reuse operations have been in place throughout the United States for many years. Typically, you will find two types of reuse operations: one type provides brokering and listing services, and one type provides the physical space warehouse or storefront to store materials available for reuse.
Some examples of reuse operations are provided in the following sections. Swap shops. Swap shops take used materials that would normally be discarded and make them available to employees or the public at little or no cost.
Swap shops at businesses and industries can be designated areas where employees can collect used buckets; extra, individual soaps and shampoos at hotels ; pallets; containers; and other items. Local governments can set up swap shops at landfills or collection centers where the public can drop off nonhazardous reusable items and pick up things they can use.
Surplus stores. Surplus stores accept unwanted items usually furniture and office equipment and make them available internally or for sale to other agencies or to the public. Surplus stores are usually operated by large institutions such as universities and governments. State and federal surplus stores provide a good source of used equipment, vehicles, and supplies for institutions and local governments. Scrap exchanges. Scrap exchanges accept industrial scrap or printer overruns and distribute them for free or sell them at a nominal cost to schools, daycare centers, senior centers, and nonprofit organizations with arts programming.
You can also rub dark shoes with used filters to make them shine again. To dispose, compost or stick them in your garden, grounds and all. Coffee cans: Embrace the Kondo Method and use old coffee cans to collect all that random junk that's accumulating.
Already de-cluttered? Make indoor or outdoor planters from old cans. Or, a rusty colander comes ready-made with holes and needs barely any work to become the perfect planter. Small closets rejoice! Old condiment bottles: Fill one old condiment bottle with pancake batter and one with eggs un-shelled, obviously for a quick camp breakfast.
Best enjoyed outside with a side of bacon. Plant a few seeds in each cup until they sprout into seedlings, then replant. Bonus hack: let a few of your best plants go to seed and save the seeds for the following season. Citrus peels infused with white vinegar make a nontoxic, smells-so-fresh, cleaning solution. Jars: The poster child for reusable items. Reuse jars for leftovers, homemade sauces see 10 for ideas , bulk dried goods, and pre-fab lunches.
Gallon jugs: Forget the bags of ice, fill an old gallon jug with water and freeze. That giant "ice pack" will keep your camp cooler just as cold. Bonus: You can use the water for drinking, cooking, or washing when it melts. Prescription bottles: The perfect size for a mini first aid kit.
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