Waging War on Waste: try to repurpose before simply recycling

Over the past several years most of us have become well acquainted with the task of recycling. Instead of tossing everything into one or two large containers on garbage collection day, we now take the time to sort bottles, cans, plastics, paper and in some cases even our table scraps so that they can be collected and given new life. Taking the extra time to do this is good for the environment, but is that all we can do? What about the things that we are recycling?

The fact is that almost everything that we throw out or recycle can be used in ways other than what they were originally intended to be used for.
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