Buy a Recycled Thing

Choosing to buy recycled things saves more than just a load of waste. Making new things from old things can use up to a whopping 90% less energy than making them from scratch. It also saves precious raw materials, and spares the old product from the pit of methane-spewing landfill despair.

There are recycled, and consequently much more interesting, versions of pretty much everything out there, whether you're raising your recycled glass goblets, showing off your rock ‘n' roll credentials with a recycled, sustainable axe, or after that perfect gift or bit of designer chic.

For everything from bathroom accessories to wedding presents to equestrian bedding, the Recycled Products Guide is... well, a handy guide to where you can buy recycled products.

And choose recycled paper stuff. Deforestation is the second leading cause of CO2 emissions, so next time you're buying a notebook or tissues, go for recycled paper versions or make sure they're FSC-certified. Alternatively, you could buy paper that's not been made from trees, but from elephant or rhino poo instead. Truly. And for other recycled stationery essentials, Remarkable is just that.

Or when you're out and about you don't have to be a fashionista to dress super-cool. Kit yourself out in recycled finery with lovely designs like those here, or here, or don some headline-grabbing jewellery fashioned entirely out of newspapers. All you need to complete the look is a trend-setting recycled top, a nifty handbag and shoes made from seat belts or old car tyres, and you're ready to paint the town green.

And when the time comes, as it must for us all, you could, if you wanted, choose to be buried in a quite lovely eco-friendly, seed-pod shaped recycled paper coffin.

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