green tip #4: re-use

So much of what we consume ends up as rubbish within months, weeks, days, hours, minutes perhaps seconds even. In Oz alone we're sending ridiculous amounts of waste to sit in landfill sites, (700kg per person if I can recall correctly). By extending the life cycle of products, we can cut down that number. But remember it's first important for us to reduce!

Benefits:

• Less waste
• Less pollution
• Lower carbon emissions
• save some dough.
  

I want to open the comments section to share ideas, here are some to get you thinking...

• buying products with packaging that can be re-used (be sure to re-use them cause there's nothing worse then buying it and chucking it.
• gently opening gifts and reusing the wrapping paper (only after reading the card like mum would say)
• Mending stuff - clothes, machines etc
• Buying second hand at op shops, markets, festivals - let's face it, we all buying retro clothing anyway!