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| Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!: An Easy Household Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Nicky Scott
Creator: Axel Schiffler
Publisher: Green Books
Category: Book
List Price: £3.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 10724
Media: Paperback
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 1903998409
EAN: 9781903998403
ASIN: 1903998409
Publication Date: January 1, 2004
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Condition: Brand new books, shipped the same day in most cases (from the UK)
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Excellent Resource For Reducing "Waste" November 2, 2008
This is a great book for informing readers on how to reduce, reuse and recycle what most of us consider "waste". It has a concise and informative introduction to the topic and then provides an alphabetical listing of many common "waste" items and how best to be reduce, reuse or recycle them.
The book also points out quite a number of UK-specific organisations who offer recycling services which I found particularly useful. I have already found myself recycling or reusing products which I would have previous thrown in the rubbish bin.
Essential October 20, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
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 pocket sized book packed with superb information September 27, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A pocket sized book packed with superb information on getting the most from what we use, where we buy it from and what we do with it. Another superb Green Books Guide.
The sheer volume of waste produced in the UK is staggering, every hour we produce enough rubbish to fill the Albert Hall, everyday Trafalgar Square could be filled to old Nelson's nostrils.
It wasn't always thus, in the 1950's our waste bins looked very different. The majority of homes were heated with coal so ash and clinker made up the majority of our waste until the Clean Air Act changed our home heating. There was very little plastic, as blister packs and processed food were a rarity. Food was predominantly bought loose and wrapped in paper, which was then used to light the fire. Most bottles were returnable with the small deposit ensuring that enterprising kids kept the streets and bins free of them in the search for pocket money, the milk man took the empties away. The rag and bone cart patrolled the streets picking up rags, old furniture and bones for bone china and bonemeal.
The advent of the supermarket, convenience food and fast living has fundamentally changed the way we consume, what we consume and how it is packaged. Plastic wrapped vegetables, packaged processed food, milk in cartons, drinks in plastic bottles and can. Every thing is packaged and presented in an eye catching way to encourage purchasing on crowded shelves. On average supermarket shoppers spend 470 a year on packaging, a sixth of their annual food spend.
Nicky Scott's Reduce Reuse Recycle is one of the most comprehensive guides available on how to both avoid packaged goods and what to do with what remains. Every possible purchase is listed from Aerosols to Yoghurt pots with ideas on how to reduce, reuse and recycle where appropriate. The Guide is full of useful hints and ideas as well as links to resources and organisations that can help reduce the waste your produce and maximise the utility of what you buy.
The three Rs of a greener home economic is not about sacrifice, nor for that matter expense, it is about concentrating on what we really need, so much of which is not actually materials but real engagement with what we do. It is about cutting down spending on what we don't use, like packing, getting maximum value both for ourselves the next user so that what we do buy is the best quality we can afford. This is book is a great little pocket guide to how we can get the most from what we do have to buy and make everything have a longer more productive life.
Nickly Scott is the author of `Composting For All' and `Composting: an easy household guide', both published by Green Books. He is on the management team of the National Community Composting Network.
Every home should have a guide like this, a superb effort once again Nicky.
Essential August 17, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
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
Great little book June 28, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
There are so many things that you would put in your bin that you can divert away from the land fill. This book is a real eye opener in what can be done with items you think you can't use anymore. It's not about how you can recycle products away from your home but also how they may get a second life in your house or garden. For me. the section on reusing cooking oil alone probably paid for this book.
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