reuse

You mustn__ throw them away. Let me have them.

We can't achieve zero waste without reuse.

Reuse is the original green collar job.

She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful.

A maid__ yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master__ dustbin or dumpsite.

A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at least one disposable diaper from being used and created. One cloth diaper after another, days accumulated into years and now our next child is using the cloth diapers we bought for our firstborn.