The 3 R's
Reduce
ReduceIf you reduce your waste, you make less rubbish in the first place. To do this, you need to try not to buy so many things with lots of packaging around them, cancel your junk mail and not buy disposable things, so that you've got less to throw away.
You can stop junk mail coming through your door by writing to Mailing Preference services, Freepost 22, London, W1E 7EZ or tel 0207 2913310 or registering at the mailing preference service website
You can stop junk mail coming through your door by writing to Mailing Preference services, Freepost 22, London, W1E 7EZ or tel 0207 2913310 or registering at the mailing preference service website
Re-use
Re-useIf you re-use your waste, you use it again. This is even better than recycling it, as it requires no more energy. Easy ways to re-use waste are by refilling pop bottles with more drinks, always using both sides of pieces of paper or using scrap materials instead of new materials for making things with.
Recycle
RecycleRecycling is the way in which some waste materials can be made into new materials. In many areas, paper, cans, glass jars and bottles, foil, clothes, shoes, spectacles, car batteries and engine oil can be collected from people's houses. The materials are then sent to various factories to be recycled and made into new things.
