Ways to Reuse and Reduce

1. If all your wet garbage is composted or washed down the drain with a garbage grinder, use your disposable shopping bags to dispose of non-recyclable dry trash.
2. Broken china can be used with some group or cement mortar to make great designs on old lamps or walls.
3. Scarred but still usable tables and chairs can be painted with bright colors and used in playrooms.
4. Buy items in bulk because they will require less packaging. This, of course, applies to things that will not spoil or become outdated and need to be thrown away.
5. Keep durable coffee mugs and cups in your car and at your workplace. Insist that take-out restaurants refill them rather than giving you a disposable container.
6. Carry small, flat, plastic bowl with you when you eat at a restaurant so you won't have to use their polystyrene foam containers.
7. At the grocery store, take a reusable bag to carry groceries home; try to buy items with less packaging, such as meat and cheese from the deli wrapped in butcher paper.