Tips 051 - 075

51. Buy shampoo in large jugs (or Enviropaks), and fill your smaller bottle at home.

52. Place buckets or barrels under the corners of the roof to collect rainwater for wetting plants.

53. Buy pop and beer refillable bottles.

54. Use reusable plastic containers when you go on picnics or road trips and bring your garbage home for your composter or blue box.

55. At the office, circulate memos instead of duplicating them.

56. Avoid single, serving packages in supermarkets, e.g. baby food jars, single slice processed cheese, T.V. dinners.

57. Save energy used in ironing by hanging clothes in the bathroom while showering.

58. Take the time to eat in rather than take out.

59. Buy the tem with the least packaging when choosing between two equally good products.

60. Water your plants with left over cold tea or coffee.

61. Make Christmas cards out of boxboard and colourful magazine pictures. It reduces waste and gives a much more personal touch to your season's greeting.

62. When cleaning your paint brushes with mineral spirits, let the paint settle to the bottom and pour the clean spirits back into the jug.

63. Make pizza at home and let them keep the box. Pizza boxes are not recyclable.

64. Share with neighbours and friends or rent those large and expensive things that you use only once in a while such as lawn mowers, and tools.

65. Use wall paper scraps to decorate a gift box, a chair or a chest of drawers.

66. Ask your friends or relatives if they can use your leftover paints.

67. Consider a biological toiler as an alternative to a septic tank at your cottage or home.

68. Purchase a reusable coffee filter.

69. When you find a flyer on your windshield take it back to the business that put it there.

70. Encourage restaurant owners to use condiment and sugar containers rather than the small packets.

71. Cut down on handouts by using overheads in meetings and presentations where possible.

72. Write greetings card messages in pencil so they can be reused.

73. Reuse old nylons in the bottom of flower pots for drainage.

74. Bring reusable containers or bags to the supermarket for cheese and meat from the deli-counter.

75. Get out the scissors and convert large detergent boxes into large file holders.

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