Like all good recyclers, the Green movement is reusing an old idea as new: Precycling is becoming all the rage again.
What is precycling, you ask?
Well, it's recycling before there is a need to recycle. Precycling is about not making garbage in the first place. Precycling is about real life style changes. The idea is to not buy items all bulked up in packaging that will have to go in the recycling bins. Instead, you only buy items that go into reusable containers. Basically, it's bulk buying on steroids.
Precycling in the infancy stage is using cloth bags for grocery shopping or taking a lunch box to work. You use reusable containers to store food or those washable plastic bags for sandwiches. Have you started having milk and juice in glass jars delivered to your door step? Yes, that's right, you are precycler.
Precycling in the advanced stages includes only shopping at stores that sell items only in bulk, i.e. items that you place in recycled glass jars and plastic containers. You've stopped buying newspapers and magazines and read all your literature online.Water bottles are out (or refilled numerous times with filtered water). All java baristas have touched your favorite mug at least twice. Junk mail is returned to sender. You make your own bread and staple foods. No boxed food is found in your pantry. Finally, your recycling bins are collecting dust in the garage! The conversion is complete.
No matter where you land on the scale, precycling habits are eco-aware goodness baked into that non-packaged all-bulk-bought-ingredient filled chocolate cookie! Take a bite out of life and enjoy.
Source: BecauseAction.com
