Recycle, Reuse, Reduce

Recycle, Reuse, Reduce

There’s something I want to talk about desperately with any audience and all of the future visitor’s to this blog of mine. Recycling used to be looked at as something that was tedious, laborious or something that just didn’t have good enough profit or rewards from it. That was only 20 years ago, however there now factories that focus solely on turning our used byproducts into raw materials that companies can now use. Like used water bottles getting turned into the packaging materials for new products and used cardboard boxes getting turned into writing paper. There’s a multitude of your current products that get turned into packages. I actually just recently bought some water at a store that had it’s entire ‘bottle’ made from recycled plasitcs for the lid and paper for the ‘bottle’ portion.

There’s also a good amount of ways to contribute to recycling your byproducts. Firstly most universities or colleges have recycling means and bins. My nearby university has bins to recycle cell phones, batteries, paper, plastic and a good amount of other things! Usually those are in the main commons or throughout the college in their main hallways or even outside in some cases. There’s also some cases where cities have designated recycling places for glass, which my city does in the parking lot of a nearby highschool’s football field. If you do some research online, I’m certain anyone can fin the nearby resources for recycling and living a green lifestyle.

You can also turn you cardboard or your food waste into compost for a garden and provide your own vegetables some high-nutrient soil. Another way to contribute to the planet’s longevity is by re-using the bottles for water you get, like getting a Smart Water and refilling that bottle with water from work or from a Brita filter. As I’ve said multiple times, there’s a multitude of different ways you can get creative and use things over or repurposing them for something else!