The Three R’s

The Three R’s of the Environment

By three r | July 4, 2007

Our quest on finding the most definitions of Three R’s takes us today to another topic, enviroment. This idea came from a fellow blogger from g2bgreen.com which suggested I do an article on the environment. The Three R’s of the environment are: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, need i say more?

“Every year, Americans throw away 50 billion food and drink cans, 27 billion glass bottles and jars, and 65 million plastic and metal jar and can covers. More than 30% of our waste is packaging materials. Where does it all go? Some 85% of our garbage is sent to a dump, or landfill, where it can take from 100 to 400 years for things like cloth and aluminum to decompose. Glass has been found in perfect condition after 4,000 years in the earth!

We are quickly running out of space. It’s time to learn the three R’s of the environment: reduce, reuse, recycle. Then practice what you preach: don’t buy things you don’t need or items that come in wasteful packaging or that cannot be recycled. Reuse and recycle whatever you can.”

Another mention of environment and the shows that many enviromental quotes are based on Three R’s :
“Implementing the three R’s - reduce, recycle, reuse, will help you save money and help protect the environment! And, if we protect the environment we are reducing our stress by living in a healthy world.”
Catherine & Byron Pulsifer, from Recycle, Reduce, Reuse

Not to be outdone, a third article related to the Three r’s is from a point of view of implementing the three r’s. The article by Carla E. Dearing takes a look at how “reuse” is the hardest of the three r’s:
Re-use is easy to understand but manually intensive to execute. Kurtzig’s innovation is a web based marketplace that increases the productivity of the match between those wishing to dispose of items and those in need. There are fees involved but it appears to be a very low margin business. Consequently, there may be a “social business enterprise” here that could engage more companies to meet a marketplace need that heretofore was too “micro” to reach.
Comments at the bottom of the article are very interesting.