Reuse
Reuse confronts the challenges of waste reduction, reuse also sustains a comfortable
quality of life and supports a productive economy.
The best option is to prevent or reduce the amount of waste that is generated in the first place.
While recycling is an important component of the overall waste management hierarchy, it is still the
least preferred option because you first have to generate the waste in order to recycle it. Reuse falls
in the middle in that if an item can be reused, either by the original user or by someone else before it is
disposed to the trash or recycled, then the waste of that item is prevented or at least delayed.