GIFTS

Presents
- Give gift certificates for a service or a favorite store
- Give useable items such as exotic fruits, regional food, jams, stamps or candles. 
- Give presents that reduce waste, battery recharger or a collection of cloth grocery bags. 

Wrapping Paper
- Save and reuse wrapping paper. 

- Gift bags are easy to reuse too! 
- Use the comic strips for wrapping paper. 


IN THE BATH ROOM

Composting in the Bathroom
Put a paper bag under the sink next to the garbage for hair and Kleenex. They are great for the compost pile! 

Recycle Water
- Keep a bucket in the bathroom to catch "warm-up water", use to flush toilet or water plants. 
- Divert lavatory drains into toilet tanks.


IN THE OFFICE

Double side copies 

Print draft documents on scratch paper 

Reuse large envelopes 
Cover address with shipping labels with your address.

Buy recycled printing paper 

Start a "recycled reading" shelf
Bring your already read paperbacks, magazines, and hard covers to work and exchange with fellow cellmates. 


TIPS FOR THE RADICAL RECYCLER

Panty Hose
-Cut off the bad leg and wear the remaining good one-legged panty hose with another pair of one legged panty hose.
- Cut off leg and wear over your head as a bank-robber or monster mask

Old/lost Socks 
Use as re-usable feminine pads 

Have fewer babies 

Donate your organs 

Buy less stuff