Britton F-USA

When I think of reusing and repurpose I think about the items around my house. In order to reduce the amount of waste being thrown out everyday and causing major expense my family likes to save and reuse things. For example, when we workout we use reusable bottles rather than the plastic ones. They save money and are helpful to the environment. Tupperware is something also very common in my household. It is used for storage of foods. This safes room and money especially when things are being bought and brought home from the store.

Hi, my name is Lindsey, and I’m from the U.S. Whenever my parents and I go to the grocery store we always get plastic bags. We never use reusable bags, but we do reuse the plastic bags, mainly to put dirty cat food boxes into. It is just so easy for us to throw so many recyclable things out. But, we do reuse as many things as possible. The plastic bags are stored and reused for carrying lunches or trash. Old shoe boxes are used for… wait for it… storing shoes!!! Isn’t that amazing, but they are also used for school projects too. We even hang on to fabric scraps so that we can make a nice patchwork blanket. There are so many ways to reuse things its crazy, but there are lots of great ideas out there, like these.

Hi, I’m Ginny, a 6th grader living in Taipei, Taiwan. Is throwing everything you don’t want away the best way to do things? Sure, it’s a lot more convenient and easier than having to think about how you will repurpose them, but reusing and repurposing can affect the world in a lot of ways. All the things you throw away go to landfills. If people don’t start reusing things, the world is going to become a dump due to all the trash. There will also be higher fuel prices because factories will have to make aluminum, plastic, paper etc., from scratch. The more new things that are created, the more energy we use will also decrease the amount of fuel. These are all some ways not reusing things can affect our lives in a negative way. On the other hand, reusing items also mean that we are adding value to them. When we reuse, the thing becomes more valuable and usable. We also save money when repurposing things because we don’t have to buy new things again. We have a responsibility to protect this earth for human habitation, so let us all reuse and repurpose whenever possible to achieve this goal!

Hello everyone! I’m Kylie from the U.S. The day before yesterday, my class and I did a survey to calculate an approximation for our CO2 footprint. This taught me a lot about what I can do to reduce to amount of CO2 I emit. The difference between reuse and repurpose is that reusing something may be using it for the same action it was intended for, where, repurposing an item can be using it for another action all together. Reuse and repurpose is a great motto to live you life to. This will decrease the amount of pollution in our world today, giving our planet a longer life expectancy. I believe we all as humans should do our best to reuse our items and repurpose them, for the better of our world.

Reuse and repurpose. You can reuse many things or use it to make something out. When something broke don’t just throw it into the recycling bin, find out what the problem is, if the problem is light. You can use daily supplies to fix it. You can get empty jars to store spices and plant some plants. You can turn old credit cards into guitar picks. Old paper rolls can organize chords. You can also use old cardboard boxes to make houses, put stuffs, or make a board game. You can use cereal boxes to hold magazines. When your cloths are too small for you, you can cut it up and use it for a rag, or you can leave it and when there is a new born you can give it. Leftovers can become a new meal, as using leftover rice, meats, and vegetables. This is some reusable ways.

-by: Lauren

alright so maybe some of these are a little.. unrealistic. But I thought a lot of them were quite creative (and not to mention that reusing/repurposing different objects around the household is so much better for the environment than just throwing them away!)

Hello!
My name is Alexandra and I go to Kungsholmens Gymnasium in Stockholm, Sweden.

Reduce, reuse, recycle!

Reduce: Ask yourself, do you really need another thing? Things, things, and more things… We usually have way too many things which is a great problem in our World today. We should all try to act as both individuals but also as a World to reduce our needs. Do we always need what we purchase? Ask yourself the question next time you stand in a shop. Do I truly need this or is it only a want?

Reuse: Reuse as much as possible. Try to think of all the things you are planning on throwing away, a way how to reuse them. Maybe they will come in great use again and then it’s so unnecessary to have to go out and buy another one. So what can one reuse?
-plastic bags
-envelopes
-jars and pots
-tyres
-scrap paper
-newspaper, cardboard and bubble wrap
-old clothes
Yes, the list can get very long!!!

Recycle: By recycling you can contribute to making valuable resources that otherwise would just become random waste. By recycling you help to not only save our environment but also money. By recycling no resources get wasted and then also our environment might be able to survive longer and longer…

So guys, reduce, reuse, recycle!
Keep that in the back of your head and hopefully you can make a change :)

Hello!

I sure do agree that throwing things away in a recycling bin or just a plain bin is much more tempting or easier I should say than thinking about how I could reuse it which isn’t good at all. Whenever I go grocery shopping I usually don’t buy a bag because I always either have my bag (like a school bag or anything likely) or an old plastic bag that I would have bought earlier. At home under the sink we store plastic bags whenever we’ve bought something so that we could reuse them again whenever needing a plastic bag. I love second hand clothes/vintage clothing and buy lots of old clothes, so I guess thats a way of reusing clothes. :)

It’s really important that we reuse and repurpose rather than just recycle products. Even when we recycle, it takes a really long time for the materials to break down. Finding innovative ways to continually reuse products would really help reduce how many new things we buy that we don’t really need. Packaging is a big factor, too. Buying in bulk helps, because when things are separately packaged, it adds more garbage.

Personally, whenever I go out to the store, I always have reusable bags with me. It helps reduce the amount of plastic bags we have in my house, which are really hard to recycle. When I go out to eat with my family, we always bring containers to take home any leftovers or and to-go meals. We can just wash them and reuse them again!

There is always a better way. Ok it is better to recycle than to throw items to a trash can because these items will be use again. So recycle is good but that doens’t mean that we can’t use these items in another way. I saw some old rubber boots and how people turned them into a vase. I really liked that because it so unusually. I think we can reuse some items if we use our imagination.