Resist waste - reduce it at source!
Ways to cut down:
1. Resist packaging!
- Avoid heavily packaged products
- Buy products sold in refill packs or concentrated products
- Reuse plastic bags or use robust shopping bags.
2. Resist consumerism!
- Buy less - do you really need it? Can you use something else? Can you make one?
- Ask around - does someone have one they don't want? Use the Local Email Swapshop - a weekly email list for the Valley where people post their wants and offers. Ask ecodyfi and we'll tell you about how to contact it.
- Reuse things - adapt them for a new purpose - make art - reuse components
- Pass them on - to family and friends or to second hand shops
- Buy in charity shops and CRAFT.
3. Value what you have!
- Buy things that will last
- Maintain things properly
- Repair things when they break.
