The 3Rs system
The principle of reducing waste, reusing and recycling resources and products is often called the “3Rs.” Reducing means choosing to use items with care to reduce the amount of waste generated while reusing involves the repeated use of items or parts which still have usable aspects and recycling means the use of waste itself as resources.
Eisenberg (2008) suggested that “reduce” as the starting point of 3R, and it to be the most crucial and effective factor of 3R. However, “reduce” is also the most difficult step to be conducted since it requires giving up and letting go things that is not unnecessary. “Don’t chase the latest fashions. They will age the fastest.” (Eisenberg, February 2008). Therefore, to make use of “reduce” in your daily life, durability, usefulness and essentialness are the things to be considered while buying something.
Furthermore, “reuse” is the concept and the action applied before one recycles or disposes thing. One should consider whether the thing is reusable before throwing it away. For example, a jam jar can be used to store leftovers, the food scraps can be used as fertilizer, and an old shirt can become a pajama top. By reusing, new resources are keep from being used for longer period of time, and postpone the timeline of old resources from entering the waste stream (Eisenberg, 2008).
Moreover, “recycle” is the last "R" and it has caught on the best. This is because there are so many curb side recycling programs today (8,660 as of 2006, according to the EPA), which makes recycling easier. What keep it from being a total piece of cake are the rules. Every municipality has its own, and they are not always as straightforward as they could be (Eisenberg, 2008).
According to human history, recycling has been a common practice for us with recorded advocates as far back as Plato in 400 BC. Archaeological studies of ancient waste dumps show less household waste (such as ash, broken tools and pottery) at that time. This shows that more
Eisenberg (2008) suggested that “reduce” as the starting point of 3R, and it to be the most crucial and effective factor of 3R. However, “reduce” is also the most difficult step to be conducted since it requires giving up and letting go things that is not unnecessary. “Don’t chase the latest fashions. They will age the fastest.” (Eisenberg, February 2008). Therefore, to make use of “reduce” in your daily life, durability, usefulness and essentialness are the things to be considered while buying something.
Furthermore, “reuse” is the concept and the action applied before one recycles or disposes thing. One should consider whether the thing is reusable before throwing it away. For example, a jam jar can be used to store leftovers, the food scraps can be used as fertilizer, and an old shirt can become a pajama top. By reusing, new resources are keep from being used for longer period of time, and postpone the timeline of old resources from entering the waste stream (Eisenberg, 2008).
Moreover, “recycle” is the last "R" and it has caught on the best. This is because there are so many curb side recycling programs today (8,660 as of 2006, according to the EPA), which makes recycling easier. What keep it from being a total piece of cake are the rules. Every municipality has its own, and they are not always as straightforward as they could be (Eisenberg, 2008).
According to human history, recycling has been a common practice for us with recorded advocates as far back as Plato in 400 BC. Archaeological studies of ancient waste dumps show less household waste (such as ash, broken tools and pottery) at that time. This shows that more