2. Help to reduce pollution Recycling everything that you can recycle! This may mean you have to spend an extra five minutes sorting out what is rubbish and what is recyclable. This may mean a different bag to put your recyclables in. Recycle your unwanted gadgets. There are websites that recycle your mobile-phone and you can even receive money for doing so! You can recycle your used printer ink cartridges. So many used ink cartridges are disposed of by households and business every day and these are unnecessary additions to landfill waste. They can also leak and cause serious environmental consequences through contamination.

3. We can recycle almost everything these days: plastics, glass, aluminum, other metals, clothes, newspapers, magazines, cardboard, even organic peelings from your vegetables can go on a compost heap. Use online auction sites to sell unwanted items or donate useful items to charity shops and collections. Buy recycled products. Among these: recycled paper, products that use recycled packaging and plastics, recycled electrical goods, clothes from charity shops.

4. Re-use your plastic shopping bags until you can use them no more...and then try and recycle them! Better still not to use plastic bags: buy a rucksack or another type of bag to use for your shopping.

5. Use rechargeable batteries for electronic items. When you are recharging these items do not leave connected to the power supply overnight. Recharge them and then unplug them so as not to waste energy! Use public transport, walk or cycle...or car share. The fewer vehicles are used, the less pollution will be emitted. This means better health for us all.

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