Today's the Day - Dec 2 National Pollution Control Day

A leaflet came though my door.

Prevention is better than cure.

 I am already sorting everything in my house. 

What more can I do?

1 Choose less packaging. 

2 More recycling.

3 Join or start a whatsapp group for your street or area, offering things you don't want to throw away so other people can get them for free.

Recycle goods at your clubs and meetings. Used paper, for stapling into small notepads. Or made into papier mache. Or for school art and craft Saturdays.

Campaign for a shop in every high street that runs repairs to umbrellas and pots and pans and clothes, and teaches teenagers and the unemployed. In another area teach cooking from leftovers, growing from leftover seeds and fruit stones.

Persuade your local council to run two days a year when like other cities and countries, everybody leaves furniture and good on the street outside their house or business and passers-by take what they want. At the end of the day, charities and local councils collect items which are left over.

Start a city improvement group. Collect ideas from around the world and add at least one a year.

Get the immigrants 99 per cent in work, keeping up skills, contributing, not being a burden on space and taxes. Get them into a new city on wasteland not prone to floods.

Start a senior's skills club. Adopted a skilled granny. Grannies can teach crochet and knitting and using sewing machines and cooking and bike riding and swimming.

Get all immigrants paired with others to teach English and their native languages and translate government documents online, to save paying for translations and printing documents in 12 languages.

Celebration Day

Why have a day celebrating anything? One advantage is that if nothing else, it just gets bloggers like me talking about it. You can discuss it on the phone with friends or in a restaurant or pub in the evening.

National days? Which nation?

Have a ten year limit on empty buildings, after which a charity renovates and rents out and can sell off to the original owner or another or the new tenants.

International days are set by the United Nations.

Every packet should include recyling instructions. Every equipment should have a repair or buyback number from the manufacturer.

I recycle jam jars. I use the sticky label to clean the carpet.

I re-label the jar.

Jam Jar Storing Paperclips. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

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