Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Rot, Recycle, RETURN

Sarah Allen of Exmouth provides some very handy tips on living in the modern world:
Futures Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Create 1 wheelie bin of rubbish per 6 months, with kids!
Futures Forum: Sarah's 7Rs > Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Rot, Recycle, Return.
Futures Forum: How to recycle in East Devon

She offers a last look at her ideas via Transition Exmouth:

SARAH'S 7Rs 

To be blunt: we all talk about it but Sarah actually does it so take some leaves out of her book. Here is the link to Sarah Allen’s blog on the subject of reducing waste:

http://www.rhubarbandrunnerbeans.co.uk/how-i-reduced-our-landfill-to-almost-nothing-well-about-13th-full-every-3-weeks-but-that-s-not-so-catchy

Here is Sarah's 7Rs take on that mnemonic: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Rot, Recycle, Return. Sarah agreed to my publishing her notes so here is her advice (her last piece for the moment sadly) on RETURN:

• Return to supermarket/company saying why.
• Find an ethical superstore
• Look at Return The Plastic FB page + Greenpeace’s recent campaign.

In conclusion she says: 'By doing all this, I end up with very little going in my bin; it might seem like a lot of effort and don’t get me wrong in some respects it is. However, I really think a lot of it is simply changing one habit to another'. 

Thanks Sarah.

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And here are those Return The Plastic Facebook pages:
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Return The Plastic Packaging - Home | Facebook
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