Magazines

In the UK 2,600 magazines are bought every minute – that’s a lot of paper and a lot of trees, energy and waster needed to make them.  So what can we do to reduce, reuse and recycle them?

Reduce

• Share a magazine subscription.  If you buy the same magazine as a friend or family member share the cost of the subscription and share the magazine.
• Get the online version.  The online price could be cheaper and you might be able to access it from your phone.
• If your workplace gets two copies of the same magazine, cancel one to save paper and money.

Reuse

• Swap magazines with your friends.
• Donate your recently used magazines to your doctor or dentist so someone else can read it while sitting in the waiting room.
• Find out if a local organisation, like a care home, children’s centre or library wants magazines for their clients.
• Use the pages as packaging material to protect breakable items in the post.  The paper can then be recycled after your parcel arrives safely.

Recycle

• Put it with your other papers for recycling.
• Use it to make your own paper.