When there is talk about waste management, people tend to talk only about recycling and forget about the two more steps that come before that. The trio fantastico is called the trpple R principle and consists of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.

Reducing is cutting back on the amount of trash we make, reusing is finding a new way to use trash so that we don’t have to throw it out, and recycling is using trash to remake new goods that can be sold again.