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Household Waste Management: Reduce

Household Waste Management: Reduce.

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Household Waste Management: Reduce

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  1. Household Waste Management:Reduce

  2. The average American creates 5 pounds of waste per day, half which is recycled in some manner, leaving roughly 2.5 pounds of waste per day. The ultimate goal of waste management is to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfills to the absolute minimum through recycling and/or reuse of all suitable materials.

  3. Reduce Reduce is at the top of the waste management hierarchy and has the greatest impact on the environment.

  4. Do I really need this?

  5. Tips to Reduce

  6. Know Your Product Origin Look for the words Made from Recycled Materials or Made from Post-Consumer Recycled Materials.

  7. Minimize Packaging

  8. Conserve Energy

  9. Transportation

  10. References: HENV-101 Household Waste Management: Reduce (2010). Retrieved November 15, 2011, from http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/henv/henv101/henv101.pdf. Photo credits: Unless otherwise noted photos and clipart used in this presentation were obtained from Microsoft Office (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/), November 2011. Contact: Ashley Osborne, M.S., Extension Associate for Environmental and Natural Resource Issues. E: ashley.osborne@uky.edu. P:859-257-2505. Date: November 2011

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