If you live your life in a way that creates less waste in the first place, you can then worry less about recycling it or disposing of it later. Not to mention the financial saving you can make by living a cleaner and less wasteful lifestyle. Changing our daily habits is the way to go. Think about all the ways you can reduce your waste. Have a think about all aspects of your life sport, job, at play or at home. There are a lot of ways available to most people to reduce their waste. You can save a lot of money, time and be good to the earth all at the same time.

At the office: A4 sheets of paper are the most wasted components on average in offices throughout the world. The average office worker in western society uses about 10,000 sheets per year.

Reduce Paper Use: 1. Try to use both sides of paper for printing. 2. Reuse paper that has only been printed on one side. This can be used for things such as drafts, sketches, throw-away documents, temporary signs or even meeting agendas. 3. Of course E-Mail is one of the best ways to reduce printing. You should only really print the things you absolutely need to. 4. Bookmark websites rather than printing them. This makes even more sense considering the webpage can be updated since you last printed it! 5. Use electronic media for your records. CD-ROM, Portable Hard Drives, USB Memory Devices. 5. Try to minimize mis-prints by posting instructions and diagrams on how to create the various types of prints your office uses such as letterheads or specialized sizes or features that only you use in your office. 6 Have a good working knowledge about your printer. You can reduce the size of your documents to get more than 1 page per A4. You can easily get two pages of a book onto 1 A4 page for example. found here Waste Management. (more...)