What are the right steps to take to protect the planet?

How to reduce?

To preserve the environment, you can adopt the following habits:

• rent or borrow to save money;
• avoid single-use products, to combat plastic pollution;
• prefer the use of refillable products, for better consumption;
• limit plastic packaging, or use recyclable or reusable packaging;
• buy new but invest in durable and good quality objects;
• choose to use repairable objects to save money and combat waste;
• choose to manufacture certain products yourself.

How do I reuse?

The Ministry of the Ecological and Inclusive Transition gives some tips on how to reuse its products and avoid throwing away:

• maintain objects to avoid breakdowns. If your items are no longer in good condition, you can check if they are repairable or call a repairman;
• Swap or swap (for example, a video game that is no longer being used for a book or a new game)
• donate objects that are no longer used (computer, toy, clothing, telephone...) to a relative or an association;
• buy or resell second-hand goods (e.g. e-sales);
• become creative, reinvent (turn boxes of packaging into storage).

How to recycle?

You can recycle the following everyday items:

• household packagings (glass, cardboard, paper, metal packagings);
• papers (newspapers, magazines, sheets, notebooks, envelopes, flyers, catalogs...);
• medicinal products for human use not used (tablets, capsules, syrups, ampoules, aerosols, ointments, creams...);
• textiles and footwear;
• furniture and bedding (sofa or mattress, professional furniture);
• electrical and electronic equipment in working order or not in use (computer or old telephone, refrigerator or iron, electronic toy, electric cable, etc.);
• batteries, bulbs;
• photovoltaic panels;
• small fire extinguishers and emergency lights.