Do you really need it?
- The top of our 5 categories for reducing our emissions from waste, is “Refuse” (can we manage without this?), which comes ahead of Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle and Rot.
- Making positive decisions to buy less of those smaller items that are so tempting when browsing in shops, or online, on a regular basis can have a bigger impact over a year than we might realise.
- The same goes for business purchases: set up a purchase reduction group at work and challenge each other to explain why that thing is really needed.
- Watch ‘The Story of Solutions’ and understand how we can make new choices.