Conversations on Website Conversion discussion

We all heard growing up that we need to reduce, reuse, and recycle. This chapter is centered on reducing wastes and recycling. Most people focus their attention on the first and the last: reducing and recycling. Reusing is just as important as the other two things in the list. What makes it more difficult to enact is some of the overhead that can be involved. Make certain that breakrooms are stocked with real dishes, and encourage leaving the plastic/paper utensils for another place. Reusing and recycling are two sides of the same coin—part of your plan to reuse should include purchasing paper products made from post-consumer waste.

Reducing, reusing, and recycling are the base of any greening project, in your business or at home. Where is your business prone to waste? Is there a way that you can change that waste into something that is reusable instead?

I will start with this list to with the focus on REUSE...

* Use incoming corrugated boxes for outgoing shipments
* Shred or crumple waste paper for use as packing material
* Repair broken equipment to extend its useful life
* Donate surplus items to non-profit or reuse organizations
* Donate your old computers
* Donate your old electronics

My business is prone to paper waste so I will use both side of paper that is printed and then once it is used up I will make sure it makes it into the recycle bin.

That's a great idea about the boxes. It seems so obvious once you say it, but it also makes me realize that I almost always chuck boxes straight into the recycling bin. It's better than the trash, but the energy that gets wasted in recycling what is a perfectly good box is probably ridiculous.

There are some really great computer recycling places around where I live-- even one where you can take in your old computer or monitor and they'll give you a discount shopping in the store of recycled parts. They have laptop batteries galore!

It seems that many charitable organizations have been promoting reuse before 'reuse' was an environmental action. How can you top The Salvation Army, ARC, or the Veteran's Pick Up Service? Garage sales and thrift shops, as well as FreeCycle and Craigslist make going green, with regard to the three Rs, on a household level very easy.
It has been interesting to live in different places and see how the reduce, reuse, and recycle are implemented. In Vienna, there was no ‘trash bin’. Everything was recycled and composted. In California our recycle bins were larger than our trash bins, while in Colorado it is just the opposite. I’m still hopeful each time I visit the Hill Country in Texas, that one day, I will have an opportunity to recycle my glass, paper and plastic.