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WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY REDUSE? |
The three R's are followed for a Green Living to help the planet Reducing is the first and most effective of the three Rs . It means reducing your consumption or buying less. Designing items like plastic bottles in ways that use less material is another way to reduce consumption. Using steel cutlery instead of plastic utensils, buying used goods, mending clothes instead of buying new ones and consuming less electricity are all examples of ways you can reduce in your own life.Reusing is the second most effective of the three Rs; like reducing, it avoids creating waste rather than trying to recycle it once it's already thereRecycling extracts valuable materials from items that might otherwise be considered trash and turns them into new products. |