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7 Ways to Reduce Household Waste

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Growing up, my re-used T-shirts as dust rags and other cleaning supplies. Compost kitchen waste to feed your garden. When you do have to throw out batteries or electronics, find out where you can dispose of them in a way that allows for a level of recycling, and keeps chemicals from polluting the environment.

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10 Ways To Make Your Home A Zero-Waste Facility

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And while there are many individuals and groups working to make that a reality, it’s a rather difficult achievement because of the way we have set our society up to be one of convenience and disposability rather than reuse. Reuse Everything Glass jars make great water bottles at home. Shredded paper can be put in compost piles.

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Reviewing The World’s Landfills – A Future Fictional Business Plan Excerpt

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“moved from simple dumping on land or sea, to burial, sanitary landfill, feeding to swine, reduction, incineration, and various forms of composting”. none of them were working to contain the growing mountains of waste. How much trash we generate /recycle. percent, was either recycled or composted. million tons (74.2