Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.
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I was brought up to reuse things.
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
I have become quite good at repurposing and reusing much of what comes into the house. The goal is to generate as little waste as possible.
Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.
The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.
We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.
I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.
It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.
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