Recycling items actually takes more energy than what other conservation methods that start with "r"?
reusing and reordering
reducing and regurgitating
revision and remembrance
reducing and reusing
We haven’t done as well with the first two “R”s — reducing and reusing. But they aren’t always as easy as recycling. Recycling is better than making things from brand new materials. But it still takes some resources to turn recycled items into new ones. It takes no resources at all to reuse items or not buy them in the first place.