What communities can do
- 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, 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
- 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
Campaigns
Why it matters
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The 5th 'R'
A fifth 'R' is sometimes added. Examples include: 'Refuse', 'remanufacture', 'recover', 'restore', 'redesign', 'repurposing', 'rot' (compost), etc. [1]
Resources
- iFixit, the free repair guide for everything, written by everyone. Global community of people helping each other repair things
- 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.
Citizens data initiative
Recycling Infographic from reusethisbag.com
Quotes
"If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any" Groucho Marx
Video
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See also
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
- Environment quality
- Ethical consumerism
- Food, sustainable community action
- Free stuff
- No such thing as waste
- Sharing
- Zero waste towns
- Category:Recycling
- Category:Composting
Interwiki links
Wikipedia: Zero waste and its Governance section, Waste reduction (category), Reuse (category), Recycling (category),
External links
References
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