‘PREcycling’ Prevents Packaing in the Zero-Waste Home

Reader Contribution by Tammy Taylor
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We’ve all heard it before – it’s important to recycle whenever possible.  You care about this big blue planet we call home so you carefully and dutifully sort your papers and plastics, your glass and your metals. You faithfully lug that recycling bin out to the curb each week (for those that have curbside recycling) and you pat yourself on the back that you’ve just done your part for a cleaner, healthier environment.

And make no mistake, you have!  But remember the three R’s are Reducing, Reusing, and only then Recycling.  Reducing comes first, and that means you bring less into your home to start with. I call it PREcycling. Let’s take a look at a few examples.

Reality Check For Excessive Product Packaging

Your new recipe calls for a bell pepper, so you’re doing your grocery shopping for ingredients, and nd then you see it: a two-pack of the most beautiful peppers you’ve ever seen in your life, one red and one yellow, perfectly matched in size and screaming vibrant colors. Oh man, how the sight of it entices you. But what’s this? You notice that those beautiful peppers are sitting on a Styrofoam plate and entombed in several layers of plastic.

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