Use cloth bags for shopping or reuse brown paper bags. Carry a reusable cup or mug. Buy quality durable goods, they last longer. Borrow, rent, or share items used infrequently, like ladders, carpet cleaners, and rototillers. Choose products and containers with recycled content.
Items made of glass or aluminum have high percentages of recycled content.
Take action to reduce unwanted mail. We reduce solid waste when we recycle used materials, use products made with recycled materials, or prevent the creation of waste materials. Recycling and waste prevention reduces the demand for materials, reduces garbage disposal costs, reduces your total material cost because you buy less, conserves energy, saves natural resources, saves landfill space, and reduces pollution. Every 100 gallons of recycled oil saves 65 gallons of new oil. Recycling newspaper reduces the need for virgin forest resources.