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Any tips for how to reduce your waste?
Hey - have you got any great ideas on how to reduce waste? Minimize direct mail? Improve the percentage of your waste that is recyclable? Reduce packaging? Share 'em here!
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RE:Any tips for how to reduce your waste?
At the grocery store, I limit waste by pre-cycling. I buy lots of veggies (and let them loose in my reusable bags instead of using the plastic baggies). It's healthy and green! A good rule of thumb is to avoid the center aisles (full of processed options).
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Tyler
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1/4/2010 4:58:48 PM
RE:Any tips for how to reduce your waste?
Here are some FREE ways to reduce junk mail.
Reduce the amount of credit card and insurance offers you receive by opting out:
https://www.optoutprescreen.com/
Sign up for the DirectMail.com National Do Not Mail List:
https://www.directmail.com/directory/mail_preference/
Opt out of receiving the Yellow Pages and White Pages:
http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/index.html
If you provide information about the junk mail you receive, the Direct Marketing Association will help remove your name from the specific catalog and mailing lists you don't want:
www.DMAchoice.org
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RE:Any tips for how to reduce your waste?
I reduce lunch waste by having a reusable lunch bag. I keep a cloth napkin in it, and since the bag is heavy plastic, I can bring home all my leftovers to give to the chickens, compost, or recycle. Sometimes when I don't have any food in the house to take to work for lunch I eat take away, and am appalled at the amount of packaging. Gah!
I forgot a napkin the other day, and I managed to make one paper towel last for drying my hands, eating a piece of cake, and wrapping up clementine peels to bring home.
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RE:Any tips for how to reduce your waste?
This works- I visited these sites a few years ago and I get very little junk mail. Another thing I do is cancel catelogs as they come. For example, I join Costco and a week later, I start getting mailings. I just call them first thing and have it stopped.
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