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Bring your own cloth shopping bags to the store.
Canadians bring home 55 million plastic shopping bags each week, or almost eight million every day.

Consider renting a tool or major appliance before buying it to determine whether you do need it.

Save and reuse household items—string, plastic and glass containers, gift wrap and shopping bags.

Refill your refillable bottles and other containers. The same container can be used more than once for many things—shampoo, pop, laundry detergent.

Use old pantyhose as tiebacks in your garden.

Reuse your kitchen peelings by turning them into compost.

Keep paper that has printing on only one side and use it for draft copies and scratch pads.

Minimize the use of paper and plastic bags, and reuse them for lunches or leftovers.

Buy products in containers that you will reuse (glass jars, resealable containers).

Use durable products instead of disposable ones. For example, use cloth rather than paper napkins, durable cameras instead of disposable ones, handkerchiefs instead of tissues, sponges or rags instead of paper towels.

Use cloth or metal coffee filters instead of paper ones.

Return refillable bottles. They can be used up to 20 times.

Use a mug at the office instead of a paper or plastic cup.

Use cloth diapers instead of disposable ones.
Canadians throw away 1.7 billion disposable diapers every year and the average two year old has gone through 5,289 disposable diapers.
For every dollar spent on disposable diapers, the taxpayer must spend an additional 8¢ to dispose of them.

Repair broken appliances instead of throwing them away and buying new ones.

Use rechargeable batteries.

Borrow, rent, or share items used infrequently such as a snow blower, chipper or lawn aerator.

Get books and magazines from the library or buy books at a used-books store.

Share a magazine subscription with a neighbour, co-worker, or friend.

Donate reusable items you no longer need to non-profit groups, a thrift shop, or second hand clothing store.

Check out a second hand or thrift store first when you want to buy something new.

Use salvaged building materials.

Hold a garage sale to get rid of unwanted items. Shop at garage sales to get wanted items.

Reuse styrofoam packaging peanuts.

Consider using used or refurbished office furniture for your home office.
Call Waste Reduction Office for the names of local resale businesses to identify a store that sells what you need second hand or refurbished.

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