Monday, April 19, 2021
Re-use is not often a part of the three Rs
In the modern world, most people should be familiar with the Three-R environmental creed: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. This management idea has a lot to do with sustainability, which is the 21st century approach to living in our world.
The Three-Rs are specified in their order of priority. That is, we should pro-actively reduce the usage of non-essentials, such as packaging. For the rest, we should preferably re-use or re-purpose used materials. For any remainder, we should retro-actively recycle it. Nothing should be going into rubbish land-fills, which was the fate of most unused products in my youth.