Comment on Good morning I choose creativity and recycling.

• purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I would argue that repair is part of re-use, since you are allowing it to be used again. So would be part of the second r. The first r is reduce, which would boil down to: if you already have one, don’t buy another. It’s more effective to not need the resources in the first place.

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  • Vinstaal0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No it’s not, the full ladder is basically (and even legally here in NL rvo.nl )

    1. Refuse and rethink
    2. Reduce
    3. Re-use
    4. Refair/refurbish
    5. Recycle
    6. Recover

    But the saying is often used as “Repair, Reuse, Recycle” in the right to repair programs.

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    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Might be a regional thing

      www.epa.gov/recycle

      earthhow.com/reduce-reuse-recycle/

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    • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I like those 6, but was not the mnemonic that was advertised around me. In general the order follows the life cycle of the minerals, so reduce is first as it means you dig up less. Reuse/repair is after it has been dug up, so less goes to disposal.

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      • Vinstaal0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        But you should first try to reuse something bedore you start to repurpose (or reuse it). If it can’t be repaired or it isn’t viable enough (because nobody want’s it or nobbody wants to pay for the repair) then reuse it

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