7 Steps to Zero Waste

Looking for ways to personally minimize waste in your lifestyle habits or routine? It doesn't have to be that hard. In fact, its quite easy and can often help minimize clutter in your life!

Start to include the 7 Steps to Zero Waste (below) into your lifestyle habits and choose to buy recycled content products.  Along with reducing your impact, you can influence zero waste practices in your community and beyond.

 

Step 1 | Rethink

Adopt a Zero Waste lifestyle! Rethink the way you live and interact with people, things and the Earth.

   

Step 4 | Reuse

Can you avoid buying a new product? Thrift, share, repurpose, adapt items to a new use, etc.

 

Step 2 | Refuse

If you don't buy it or use it in the first place, then you don't have to deal with it as a waste.

 

Step 5 | Repair

For a new product life cycle, fix or upgrade your existing objects before you throw them in the landfill. 

 

Step 3 | Reduce

Using less materials from the start leads to less waste and less energy use. Reduce your waste in the first place!

 

Step 6 | Regift

It is okay to pass along a gift that doesn't serve you. It doesn't have to be a holiday to re-gift.

 

Step 7 | Recycle

If all else before this step fails... Recycle all that you can to create new products, including composting your organic materials. Buy recycled content products to Close the Loop!