"If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any" Groucho Marx / Inspiring Quotes 9
Action Ideas[]
- Community Recycling schemes
- Community Wood Recycling Projects
- Nappy laundering service
- Community compost schemes
- Furniture recycling
- Scrapstores
- Second-hand clothing, etc. stores
- Computer recycling
- Rent instead of buy
- Tool sharing
- Community paper collections
- Waste exchange schemes
- Repair services
- Promoting products that are actually repairable in the first place (and not engineered to be disposable). A wiki or magazine could provide info on the most repairable products.
- Give or take days, and stalls at Green fairs
- Freecycling and Better Use - see Related and International Links
- Community art from recycled materials
- Community vegetable gardens
- Precycling, Waste minimisation W
- Bring and Fix
- X-mas present swapping market, example on wiserearth.org
Why it matters
(article needed), {see note on discussion page)
Related[]
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Wanted pages and external links
- Plastic Pollution Coalition
- GoodNewsForPolarBears.org, give and get free stuff in your local community
- Freeworld-Recycling
- Freecycle Grassroots movement of people giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.
- Better Use Sites for Switzerland, and France
- BookCrossing.com
- Project Freesheet web based campaign to highlight issues and concerns raised by the ever increasing amount of free literature now being handed out on the streets of our cities around the world.
Reduce, reuse, repair & recycle Portal - news - images - personal options
- UK - news - resources / USA - New Zealand