How to Handle

Your Trash
Step 1: Reduce.
Buy long-lasting products with
minimal or no packaging if you want
to minimize the trash that you
generate.

Step 2: Reuse.
If you think twice before putting an
item in the trash, you will find
another use for it, donate, or sell it.

Step 3: Recycle.
If you segregate your trash by type,
you can contact local recyclers to
collect your non-recycleable trash.
Step 4: Make compost.

If you gather fruit and

vegetable scraps you can
make a compost pile in your
backyard.

You have to Step 5: Dispose trash in a

throw trash landfill.

away You will throw trash in a

landfill only if you still have
responsibly trash left after following the
other four steps.