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6 Clever Off-Grid Ways To Conserve Resources (And Become More Self-Reliant)
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It isn’t recycling. It isn’t upcycling or reusing, either. Not even buying local. The number one way to conserve resources, both yours and the planets, is so simple and obvious that it might startle you.
The way to conserve resources is to avoid using them in the first place.
That’s right. It is just that easy. The amount of products people think they cannot live without has burgeoned to such an enormous list that it’s difficult to envision where it will stop. The truth is we just do not need all that stuff. And by learning how to “do without,” we in turn become more self-sufficient.
I have seen more than one post on social media about how those leftover plastic containers from single-use coffees can be used to make cute crafty items. That’s nice, but being able to convert trash to trinkets doesn’t justify creating all that trash. First of all, only a tiny fraction of those little cups are going to be upcycled. And is the end creation really worth using up petroleum and water to make, ship, process, ship again, discard, and ship yet another time?
Wastefulness is by no means limited to coffee containers.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/how-to-2/6-clever-off-grid-ways-to-conserve-resources-and-become-more-self-reliant/
