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**You can download some Top Tips about more sustainable purchasing and waste by clicking on:** 1. Promote recycling 2. Get hippos for the toilet to waste less water 3. Encourage your school to buy recycled paper 4. Try to buy locally produced food 5. Try to waste less - e.g. paper, felt tips 6. Encuorage people only to throw the things in the bin that the REALLY don't need. 7. Plant your own fruit and vegetables. 8. Buy free range foods 9. Make sure people aren't littering and pick up litter 10. Promote the 4 Rs: Reduce, Re-use, Recycle, Recover and the 3 Cs - care for yourself, for others and for the environment 11. Buy Fairtrade products 12. Buy things with no or recycled packaging 13. Cut up birthday cards to use again as gift tags etc. 14. Promote reusable drinks bottles 15. Make sure the batteries you use are rechargeable 16. Buy recycled paper 17. Compost food waste 18.Get a bin and a few posters and start a card recycaling center.Take them to a recycaling center. EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 19. Use a compost bin
 * PURCHASING AND WASTE **
 * Here are some of the ideas of things you could do in your school that came from the Ambassadors Training Days. If you think of other ideas please add them underneath. **