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The Three Rs: Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle

Description:In order to change unsustainable habits and reduce the world's mounting landfill we need to adopt a three-pronged resource conservation strategy known as the three R’s; Reduce, Re-use, and Recycle. The British government claims that a recent spike in conservation behaviors has had the equivalent effect to taking 3.5 million cars off the road. We need to reduce, reuse and recycle to lesson our consumption of virgin materials, and the vast amounts of energy used to obtain them. (0:50)

Source: Switch International

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