Reduce, reuse, repair & recycleedit

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"If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any" Groucho Marx / Inspiring Quotes 9

Contents 1 Action Ideas 1.1 Why it matters 2 Global News 3 Related 4 International Links

[edit] 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
• 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
• Give or take 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

[edit] Why it matters

(article needed), {see note on discussion page)

[edit] Global News

June 2009

• Irish waste strategy to reject incineration, June 5 ^[1] place

April 2009

• Developing countries toxic waste dumping grounds, April 29 ^[2]

[edit] Related

SCA Campaigns against incineration Environment quality Green Purchasing Green New Year resolutions Growing and gardening Recycle at Christmas - personal options Waste Free stuff	Wikipedia category:Recycling The Freecycle Network, includes sections on Controversies and Free speech	Wikisphere Green Wikia - Recycling

[edit] International Links

• 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.

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References

1. ↑ UKWIN, June 5, 2009
2. ↑ Naturegnome, April 29, 2009