1. INTRODUCTION To reuse is to use an item more than once. Conventional reusing. New-life reusing Repair is often another function of the reusing operation. Reduce-reuse-recycle

When you reuse,you offer quality products to people and organizations with limited means, while generating jobs and business activity that can contribute to the economy. For example : The Furniture Re-use Network This sector: employs over 3,000 staff provides training for over 8,000 trainees supports over 10,000 volunteers helps around 700,000 low income households reuses 2.5 million items including 300,000 electrical items and over 200,000 computers diverts 90,000 tonnes of waste from landfill

2. Estimated Tonnage of Reusable Items in NYC REUSABLES Tons per year Furniture & Furnishings 217,790 Major appliances 42,317 Small appliances 21,750 Carpets & rugs 67,011 Clothing & footwear 114,324 Towels, sheets & pillowcases 18,556 Pallets & wood containers 254,388 Total Tonnage 736,136

3. PLASTIC OR PAPER BAGS Plastic bags: 1000 years to break down. Million of gallons of oil They aren’t biodegradable. Hundreds of thousand of marine mammals die every year.

Paper bags: They are not better. The U.S. used 10 billion paper grocery bags. Solutions: High quality reusable shopping bags. Bags made up from corn. Taxes on the use plastic bags.

PAPER We need paper, but we also need trees. Recycled paper uses 70% less energy Less water and air pollution Solutions: Recycle newspapers and mixed paper.

REUSABLE BOTTLES They should be clean with hot soapy water BPA is toxic, it could produce breast and uterine cancer. Is not a good idea to burn them. Solution: Steel bottles.

4. REUSABLE WATER BOTTLES In the past, a plastic water bottle was an acceptable accesory. Before they became fashionable, we drank our water off the tap or boiled filtered and cooled. Access to clean water is a basic human right, it doesn’t make sense that we have to pay for it. Transport plastic bottles requires gas that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. 40 million bottles a day are polluting our environment. Re-using plastic water bottles is also not a good choice as the plastic can leach harmful contaminants into the water.

If you decide to go with a plastic water bottle, make sure that it is made from a material that is considered safe. Check the bottom of the container. Numbers 2, 4 and 5 are relatively safe, while numbers 1, 3, 6 and 7 are not.

EXAMPLES OF REUSABLE ITEMS Carrier bags. They can be reused in the shops or as bin bags around the house. Envelopes. They can be reused to make notes on. Jars and pots. By cleaning glass jars and small pots, you can use them as small containers to store odds and ends. Newspapers. They can be reused for packing material when moving house. Old clothes. Other people can reuse your unwanted clothes when you donate them to charity shops.

Plastic bags Newspapers

5. REBUYING AND SECOND HAND Rebuying: purchasing products made from recycled materials. Second hand: buying something that has belonged to someone else before.

EXAMPLES Second-hand shops Garage sales

Pages they show us new ways to re-use

Other curios and much more difficult things people do to re-use : To reuse old auto tyresLight Bulb Planter