Product Description

What do you do with your old mobile phone? Where can you take your old medicines? Which plastic is recyclable? What happens to the stuff you recycle? This easy-to-use guide has the answers to all your recycling questions. Use its A-Z listing of everyday household items to see how you can recycle most of your unwanted things, do your bit for the planet, and maybe make a bit of money while you're at it. Did you know that: Around 60 per cent of your rubbish can be recycled - but only 11 per cent is recycled (half is sent to landfill) Landfill sites are running out Recycling a one-metre stack of newspaper saves one tree It costs GBP332 million a year to clean up the litter on Britain's streets A plastic vending cup can be made into a pencil or a pen You can make money recycling your aluminium cans 150 million plastic carrier bags are used in the UK each week - they last up to 500 years in landfill Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is packed with ideas for cutting your consumption, reducing your rubbish, reusing, and recycling. It will also tell you where your old plastic goes to, what happens to your old glass jars, how they handle waste in other countries. With a comprehensive resources section and information on getting more involved, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to slim their bin and help stop the earth going to waste.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45558 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

From the Inside Flap
What do you do with your old mobile phone?
Where can you take your old medicines?
Which foods are compostable?
What happens to the stuff you recycle?
This easy-to-use guide has the answers to all your recycling questions. Use it's A-Z listing of everyday household items to see how you can recycle most of your unwanted things, do your bit for the planet, and maybe make a bit of money while you're at it. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is also packed with ideas for cutting your consumption and reducing your rubbish. With a comprehensive resources section and information on getting more involved, it's an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to slim their bin and help stop the earth going to waste.

About the Author
Nicky Scott is the author of Composting: an easy household guide
and former Chairman of the Community Composting Network. He lives in
Chagford, Devon, and so far has managed to reduce his family's waste to
half a bin per week.

Customer Reviews

Essential
This nice little book is essential to those who want to minimize the impact of their consuming in the environment.

Very easy to read and printed ( guess ) in recycled paper with very useful guide is very informative about ways of reducing the amount of things that we send to the rubbish bin every week.

The book features an A to Z guide of all the items that can recycle from cars to jars and many different ways of reducing what can not be recycled.

Even if you live in a flat in the city and you have no access to a compost bin this book will illustrate how to stop generating rubbish.I found the chapter about " Office " particularly helpful.

Independently of your beliefs on global warming and politics ,there is argument that consuming less natural resources is in everyone's interest.

I can not wait for the next edition due out this year.

5 stars

Essential
This is the second edition of this nice little book is essential to those who want to minimise the impact of their consuming in the eviroment.

Hardly anything different from the first edition , colour drawings instead of black and white and a more attractive cover , if you have the first edition do not bother to buy this one as is essentialy the same book.

Very easy to read and printed ( guess ) in recycled paper with very useful guide is very informative about ways of reducing the amount of things that we send to the rubbish bin every week.

The book features an A to Z guide of all the items that can recycle from cars to jars and many different ways of reducing what can not be recycled.

Even if you live in a flat in the city and you ahve no access to a compost bin this book will illustrate how to stop generating rubbish.I found the chapter on office recycling particularly helpful.

Independently of your beliefs on global warming and politics ,there is argument that cosuming less natural resources is in everyone's interest.

5 stars

A must for every household.
The reduce, reuse, recycle mantra has been around for a long time now but incredibly there are still those too stupid or too lazy to take heed. Conflicting expertise, a vast amount of information to remember and the myriad strategies by individual councils and/or local and regional authorities can make it real headache to do what is best. This book is a one-stop-shop for anyone who wishes to reduce the amount of packaging and raw materials they take in, and dispose of what they generate responsibly if not sustainably. Great for the kids but not too patronising for adults too this book gives novel ways of countering problems and contains a vast archive of references for further investigation.