Plastic Shopping Bags
Designate a place in your house (by the kitchen or by the door) for plastic shopping bags.  Clean bags can be reused for shopping trips, dirty gym clothes or any carrying purposes!  Let members know of the “take-one-leave-one” policy. 

Bread Bags
Designate a place in your kitchen (near the bread) to collect empty bags and old twist ties.  These are great for packing sandwiches or taking your lunch to school. 

Plastic Containers
Containers that are not recyclable (#3-#7) can be reused as cups or containers for storing leftovers or packing lunches.  These can be washed and reused until the labels start to fade, then they should be thrown away.

Glass Jars
Jars can also be reused as cups as well, and can last a long time. 

One-Sided Paper
If you have a house printer or a study room, set up an area of scratch paper.  This is good for printing in-house posting (like health announcements or council minutes), or even homework. 

Large Plastic Buckets
Lots of things come in buckets (like soy sauce, laundry detergent) and buckets are reusable.  Buckets make great storage containers and even better small trash bins for bathrooms or bedrooms.  Lids make good palette for painting!

Food Delivery Bags
CK brings lots of goodies to your house, often in ridiculously large plastic bags.  These, luckily, are the exact same size as trash bags . . . so reuse them!

Free-Piles
Clothes and other goodies go in your free-pile, which should be neat and clean and organized!  It is your job to make sure it stays user-friendly and that people use it.  When you’ve got too much in your free-pile, let CK know and they can pick it up and donate it.

Be Creative . . .
There are lots of things your house generates that can be reused.  Old whip-its make great wind chimes, cereal boxes are great disposable bedroom mixed paper bins.

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