Say Yes To Less Waste - National Environment Agency

2019 is the year towards zero waste. Not a new idea to me.

I was brought up to save things and repair. Before the creation of the catchy phrase, reuse, recycle, my mother who lived through two world wars, awas used to saving items. In the UK rationing went on after the war (WWII) ended in 1945, until 1952. During the war shortages of everything meant improvisation and reuse. Famously, white silk parachutes were turned into wedding dresses.

In the UK boy scouts frequently knocked on the door asking for donations for jumble sales. Nowadays nobody wants torn or stained items. You could take the buttons or zips out of clothes or even handbags before giving them to jumble sale and the collectors were still glad to have the items.

 UK charity shops and collectors for fund-riaisng sales in churches and synagogues ask for items in good condition and saleable items. But you can still sell bundles of fabrics to collection shops which pay you by weight, to recycle the fabrics.

I have been trying to repiar umbrellas. I rescue items of furniture.

I worry that we used to try to save trees by not using paper bags. Now we are turning against plastic and back to paper bags, often bearing slogans saying that they come from sustainable forests.

In Singapore, at a toastmasters Club, I was invited to enter a public speaking contest about protecting the enivronment.



https://www.nea.gov.sg/media/news/news/index/more-than-1-600-premises-team-up-with-nea-to-say-yes-to-waste-less