Editing Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

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[[File:Waste hierarchy.png|thumb|An example waste hierarchy {{W|Waste hierarchy}}: refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, recover, and disposal.]]

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The slogan '''Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle''' is an approach to the [[waste]] hierarchy that seeks to be as ecologically appropriate as possible and maximize the value and use out of a resource. It is sometimes shortened to "reduce, reuse, recycle" and sometimes, a fifth 'R' is added, such as 'refuse', 'remanufacture', 'recover', 'restore', 'redesign', 'repurposing', 'rot' (compost), etc.<ref>[[Glossary of sustainability terms]]</ref>

== Networks ==

* [https://plasticpollutioncoalition.org/ Plastic Pollution Coalition], global alliance of individuals, organizations and businesses working together to stop plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals, the ocean and the environment.
* [https://repaircafe.org/en/ Repair Café]
* [https://www.warp-it.co.uk/ WARPit], resource redistribution network

== Events ==

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* Restart Parties & other community repair events, [https://therestartproject.org/parties/ The Restart Project]

== Community action projects ==

* Bring and Fix schemes
* Community art from recycled materials
* Community paper collections
* Develop community libraries or all kinds thereby promoting reuse and [[sharing]], ''see separate article''
* Develop Community Recycling schemes or cooperatives, Community Wood Recycling Projects, Community compost schemes
* Enable Computer recycling and Furniture recycling
* Give or take days, Give or take stalls at Green fairs
* Nappy laundering service
* Plastic recycling, see [[Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle#Precious plastic|Precious plastic]]
* Precycling, Waste minimisation
* promote free reuse and Better Use
* 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.
* Rent instead of buy
* Repair services and repair cafes
* Scrapstores
* Second-hand clothing, etc. stores, support charity shops
* Waste exchange schemes
* X-mas present swapping market

=== Bring and fix ===

Article in [https://newstartmag.co.uk/features/bring-fix/ NewStart], October 2011

[http://web.archive.org/web/20160309164227/http://www.rgtb.org.uk/bringnfix/index.html Bring & Fix], Rushey Green Time Bank, and on [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-and-Fix/240807815996877 facebook]

=== Precious plastic ===

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* [https://preciousplastic.com/ A Big Bang for Plastic Recycling]
* Commmunity Map: [https://community.preciousplastic.com/map community.preciousplastic.com]
* Commmunity How-Tos: [https://community.preciousplastic.com/how-to community.preciousplastic.com], ''added 15:56, 30 November 2022 (UTC)''

'''Precious Plastic Version 4: A Big Bang for the Plastic Recycling crisis'''
''EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands - 7th January 2020''

To date, only 9 percent of the plastic waste ever generated has been recycled, and only 14 per cent is collected for recycling now, according to the UN*.

For 6 years now, Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost these numbers with a bottom-up approach bringing recycling technologies and knowledge in the hands of everyone, all open source for free. Machines and techniques empower people around the world to start recycling plastic and create new financial value from a ubiquitous free resource, plastic waste.
With more than a year of research and development, the fourth version of the project is released today, the Precious Plastic Universe.

It is an ecosystem of local recycling businesses built through business models, new and improved recycling machines, developments in product design techniques, guidelines to start collecting plastic, methods to create local recycling communities and online tools to share knowledge and to collaborate online and offline.

Now, everyone can get started on their plastic recycling journey.
Everyone is a recycler.

Anyone, whether you are an engineer, machine builder, product designer, entrepreneur, volunteer or just a citizen worried about plastic pollution, you are now able to directly impact the global recycling problem.
By focusing on businesses with this new iteration of the project, Precious Plastic can tip the scale in the right direction by fighting the plastic waste crisis on the bottom level. Because to have the greatest impact on local plastic waste, daily action needs to occur. There fore, for people wanting to do more, there needs to be facilities and tools for them to sustain themselves monetarily off of plastic recycling.

More businesses, more recycling.
That simple.<ref>[https://preciousplastic.com/press.html preciousplastic.com/press]</ref>

=== Repair Café ===

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A Repair Cafe is a meeting in which people repair appliances/devices, organized by and for local residents. They meet at a fixed location where tools are available and where they can fix their broken stuff with the help of handy volunteers. Objectives are to reduce the waste pile, to maintain repairing knowledge and to strengthen the social cohesion. {{W|Repair Café}}

=== Waste minimization ===

Waste minimization is a process of elimination that involves reducing the amount of waste produced in society and helps eliminate the generation of harmful and persistent wastes, supporting the efforts to promote a more sustainable society. Waste minimisation involves redesigning products and/or changing societal patterns, concerning consumption and production, of waste generation, to prevent the creation of waste. {{W|Waste minimization}}

== Resources ==

=== Video ===

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''more video:'' NESTA innovation in giving fund - Bring and Fix on [http://web.archive.org/web/20160214152348/https://vimeo.com/30516976 vimeo]

=== Citizens data initiative ===

* [https://www.reusethisbag.com/reusable-bag-infographics/all-about-recycling.php Recycling Infographic] from reusethisbag.com

=== How to's ===

* How to Start a Repair Café, [http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-start-a-repair-cafe Shareable]
* How & When to Resole Climbing Shoes [https://www.climbernews.com/when-to-resole-climbing-shoes/ Climbing Shoes Resoling]

=== Maps ===

* [https://therestartproject.org/global-map-of-restart-parties/ Global map of Restart Parties]
* [https://repair.crowdmap.com/ The grassroots repair and fixit movement], Map brought to you by The Restart Project

=== Quotes ===

"“The most important fact about our shopping malls is that we do not need most of what they sell.” Henry Fairlie<ref>[https://www.designobserver.com/feature/dawn-of-the-dead-mall/11747 designobserver.com]</ref>

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

=== Research ===

Grassroots Innovation and the Circular Economy - A Global Survey of Repair Cafés and Hackerspaces [https://cfsd.org.uk/site-pdfs/circular-economy-and-grassroots-innovation/Survey-of-Repair-Cafes-and-Hackerspaces.pdf PDF], July 2014

=== Other reources ===

* [https://www.ifixit.com/ iFixit], the free repair guide for everything, written by everyone. Global community of people helping each other repair things
* [https://therestartproject.org/restartparty/ Restart Party Kit]
* [https://www.myfixguide.com/ MyFixGuide], Teardown, Repair Guide For Laptop and Smartphone

== See also ==

* [[Circular economy]]
* [[Environment quality]]
* [[Ethical consumerism]]
* [[Food, sustainable community action]]
* [[Free stuff]]
* [[No such thing as waste]]
* [[Sharing]]
* [[Zero waste towns]]
* [[Sweden#Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle]]
* [[:Category:Recycling]]
* [[:Category:Composting]]

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'''External links'''

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* Wikipedia: [[Wikipedia:Zero waste|Zero waste]] and its [[Wikipedia:Zero waste#Governance|Governance]] section, [[Wikipedia:Category:Waste reduction|Waste reduction]] (category), [[Wikipedia:Category:Reuse|Reuse]] (category), [[Wikipedia:Category:Recycling|Recycling]] (category),
* [http://plasticbank.org/ The Plastic Bank], recycling to reduce plastic waste and poverty
* [https://www.epa.gov/recycle The EPA on the three Rs]
* [https://therestartproject.org/ The Restart Project], [[London]]-based social enterprise aiming to revive electronics repair in order to reduce waste
* [https://www.worldcomputerexchange.org/ World Computer Exchange], [[USA]] and [[Canada]] based charity organization whose mission is "to reduce the digital divide for youth in developing countries, to use our global network of partnerships to enhance communities in these countries, and to promote the reuse of electronic equipment and its ultimate disposal in an environmentally responsible manner." {{W|World Computer Exchange}}

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