WAYS TO WATCH
YOUR WASTELINE
Tip # 48
Donate unwanted clothes and household goods to the local thrift store (or local church), and shop there.
 
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Educate others on source reduction and recycling practices. Make your preferences known to manufacturers, merchants and community leaders.

  • Encourage source reduction, recycling, and composting programmes for yard trimmings in the community.
  • Where appropriate, encourage the use of reusable, recycled and recyclable materials in the workplace.
  • Encourage the use of efficient, long-lasting equipment.
  • Urge schools to provide environmental education and to teach about source reduction, recycling and composting.
  • Support an environmentally sound waste management programme in your community that starts with source reduction. Your community also needs access to adequate and safe solid waste facilities such as recycling and composting centers and landfills.

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