Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

We like a lot of people are meticulous at recycling.  I was putting a large envelope in the recycling the other day and it struck me that we could re-use it!  I think there has been such a push on recycling, re-using gets forgotten.  Are there things you recycle that you could actually re-use?!

Comments

[Mel]

Hi Russell,

there are also labels that you can get to help you reuse envelopes: http://www.smartplanet.com/news/household/10000611/return-to-sender-with-envelope-angels.htm
Or you can use sticky printer labels I guess.

I also keep envelopes that we cannot reuse to write notes and shopping lists on.

[russell]

hi mel, good to hear from you! hope you are settling in to your new job/home/country!! it sounds really stupid but i didn't think about keeping them for notes/lists etc! how silly is that - thanks for the prompt!! we keep other paper for that so why not envelopes that are not good enough to re-use as an envelope?! genius!