Refuse what you donāt need
Reuse everything still in working order
Recirculate what you donāt need by sharing or selling onward
Refurbish whatās fallen out of good condition so it lasts longer
Repair whatās broken altogether
Repurpose what canāt serve its original function
Recycle what is unsuitable for repurposing
What goes unsaid here is why theyāre all āre-ā prefixed: itās about circularity. Keeping the resources in use means that we donāt have to keep incurring the environmental costs of production over and over on infinite one-way trips of new stuff starting in the earth, through human society, and right back into the earth in landfill.