• On average each person on Earth throws away 7 times their own weight in a year!

TEN WAYS YOU CAN REUSE

  • Giving your hand-me-downs to someone smaller than you.
  • Using old tyres to make a fun swing.
  • Reusing those green bags that you can get at the supermarket.
  • Using bubble wrap for sending valuable items.
  • Giving used newspapers to fish ‘n’ chip shops.
  • Using the same water over and over again.
  • Ink cartridges – you could refill them at a shop.
  • Using ice cream containers for food storage.
  • Using empty oil drums as rubbish bins for big events.
  • Using both sides of a piece of paper then you could turn it into origami .
 

Remember the days when milk was delivered to the doorstep in glass bottles then cleaned to be used all over again?

You know how back in the day mothers used to use cloth nappies and wash them out when they got full of you-know-what?

Well, all this fits under one ‘R’ - REUSE. REUSE pretty much means what it says – to use something again once it’s been used once. REUSE is similar to RECOVER – you’ll find out more about that later on.

  • COMPOST!!! It's good for the environment, and it's good for your garden too!