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[Earthling]

I have an interesting story about reusing an item.
In 1960 I was in hospital with two broken arms and a broken leg, so my mum bought me a Philips twin head electric razor.
My dad had the same model, but a year later, he 'upgraded' to a triple head, cordless model, so I had to follow suit.

Well, the new razor lasted about a year before the battery packed up and replacement batteries weren't available, so I grew another beard and forgot about the electric razor for about 5 years, found it in a junk box and am still using it, 52 years later.

I still have a beard, but learned to use the razor to shave round it.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

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[ClarkParaoan]

The things that I always reuse is plastic bags because after purchasing grocery items from the grocery store I keep the plastics bags and I use it for my trash bin. Also I reuse the plastic bottles for my container of juices, condiments, and other stuff. I also reuse old clothing to be rags in our house. I reduce my garbage by recycling so less garbage less problem.

[ianmendoza]

For a better and green environment, we should know on what and where to throw a garbage properly. We should know on how to segregate this things, have a knowledge on how to segregate bio-degradable and non-biodegradable.

With this, we will know the things that we could reduce and reuse. Specifically, we need to reuse our plastic bottles, plastic cups, forks because we all know that it last a long time to vanish in our planet. It could cause our natural calamities worst, like heavy floods.

Other things to reduce are also what we could reuse again. Ofcourse, if we could use the it, we could reduce what we have. We need to learn this kind of activity for helping and contributing even it is just a small contribution, it would be a big change.

[jarjap]

We can reuse plastic bottles, batteries, Glass bottles, Mobile phones that's all.

[jarjap]

What we can reduce is you can reduce the amount of waste you create by choosing what rubbish you throw away. Like Garbage and waste products.

[jarjap]

For the better of this environment we must be able to throw waste so that the environment will not be polluted reuse all the things that can work and reduce all the garbage that can pollute the environment..

[czarinaisabelle]

Plastic is one of the number one thing that we need to reduce and to recycle. Plastic are non-biodegradable, all of us uses plastics, that means 70% of our garbage is composed of plastic. How could we manage or where could we place these plastics? Also plastic is of the reasons that causes flood, because plastic is that makes drainage's to clogged. There are many ways to recycle plastics, like a plastics bag can be use again, a plastic bottle cut it in half and could turn in vase. By just using our imaginations and creativity will our environment to more clean.

[czarinaisabelle]

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[Inah Kristine P.]

In order for us to lessen the problem in the society we should reduce and reuse such things. Like candy wrappers, bottles and other non biodegradable things. We can make bags, purses, wallet and etc. Through this, we can help not only ourselves but the environment that we're living.

[synodbio]

The indigenously developed biogas production, utilization units and techniques help in harnessing fuel value from organic materiala like kitchen waste, non-edible oil seeds, starch rich biomass, animals dung etc. The biogas produces is used as an alternative fuel for cooking thereby producing useful energy from waste and a good organic manure.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

"What to reduce and reuse"

[Bill Nook]

Does anyone here rebuild their rechargeable batteries? There's new technology that allows you to rebuild batteries that are used in power tools and rechargeable flashlights etc. It uses less than 1% of the resources that it takes to manufacture a disposable.

[Mr_Flibble]

Nope not seen the new guff on rebuilding of batteries.
However things I reuse are
Old clothes get used as rags for either my machine shop or cleaning the steam engines when they are too oily we then use them to light the boilers on the steam engines.
Old engine oil gets used either as a cutting lubricant for rough cuts (emulsified with water), when we need to temper bits we make or lighting fires either workshop stove or steam engine.
Any old wood we get goes on the wood pile that we use for heating the workshop or lighting up the trains.
We have various bins in the garage that bits of metal gets thrown into either off cuts or just stuff people find, Quite useful when you need to make all sorts of parts for trains and other things. We do have a blast furnace that one day I will get round to putting together so we can melt all the scraps down and cast something with.
I collect aluminium/ brass that I melt down in a wood fired blast furnace to cast parts for things.
Any old mechanical thing that turns up at the workshop gets used in some way usually for something. (I currently have enough bits and pieces to put together a large ish compressor system.)

[conor]

There are lots of things which can be reduce and reuse. Some are highlighted below:

1. Keep electronics out of the trash.
2. Make your own cleaning supplies.
3. Uses For Old Newspaper
4. Replace your most frequently used incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lights

Thanks

[Besoeker]

conor, on 07 February 2014 - 12:34 AM, said:

There are lots of things which can be reduce and reuse. Some are highlighted below:

1. Keep electronics out of the trash.
2. Make your own cleaning supplies.
3. Uses For Old Newspaper
4. Replace your most frequently used incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lights

Thanks

Here, UK. suppliers are required to provide facilities for accepting electrical and electronic waste.
I'm in the electrical business - we make power electronic equipment mostly for industrial applications.
We are required to comply with the WEEE directive. (Waste electrical and electronic equipment).

It can not be disposed of as general waste. We have separate collection bins to keep it segregated,
We also have throughout or factory and offices pairs of bins that sit side by side. One is for waste than can be recycled (paper, packaging, plastic cups etc), the other for general waste.

On the subject of bulbs, use LED units as replacements. They are considerably more efficient than CFL.

And a facility for recycling ink cartridges.
Recycling is, as much as anything, a culture that you get used to.

[conor]

You are right and i seem every body must have separate collection bins to keep it segregated.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

conor, on 14 February 2014 - 12:17 AM, said:

You are right and i seem every body must have separate collection bins to keep it segregated.

People don't have to buy special bins; which adds to the production/consumption of products.
They can just use various cardboard boxes.
I use tall ones that I've covered in gift wrap so they look nicer.

[Besoeker]

Shortpoet-GTD, on 14 February 2014 - 05:19 AM, said:

People don't have to buy special bins; which adds to the production/consumption of products.
They can just use various cardboard boxes.
I use tall ones that I've covered in gift wrap so they look nicer.

But that cardboard had to be produced too and could be recycled, of course.
Our bins at home are plastic but, being durable, it's a one-shot deal. And they are stored outside.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Besoeker, on 14 February 2014 - 09:40 AM, said:

But that cardboard had to be produced too and could be recycled, of course.
Our bins at home are plastic but, being durable, it's a one-shot deal. And they are stored outside.

You'd argue with a rock.