Today it’s reduce, reuse, recycle. For earlier generations, make do and mend. Done assiduously, the result is next to no rubbish. With zero waste the goal for many councils, a life-long adherent shares her tips in the first of our week-long look at recycling.

Rather than add to overflowing landfill sites, the couple have given away coat hangers, shelving and an old cooker on Freecycle, a website which offers unwanted items for free.

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