Introduction

Pollution is caused by many items, industries and activities. We create pollution when we mine and farm, transport and process things. This is why it would be wise to produce and consume less resources. At the end of an object's life that item can produce waste, as can production and shipping of that item's replacement. For this reason we often hear or read the 3Rs: 

Reduce >  Reuse > Recycle

Refuse and reduce being of higher impact than reusing, which is in turn less of a source of pollution than the recycling process.

Maintenance & Repair

Maintaining what we already have, and repairing these things over time generally uses less resources than our other options. Unfortunately practices such as companies pushing for planned obsolescence is creating a threat to the time-honored practice of repair. For this reason it can greatly help communities, individuals, and our planet as a whole to check in on your local "Right to Repair" laws, so that we don't lose legal access to one of the most basic and cost effective ways to reduce our ecological footprint.

Even if you don't personally go out of your way to repair things, ensuing the right to repair can provide life-impacting protections for repair workers and small, repair companies, people with disabilities (for example wheel-chair users), and farmers who want to affordably repair or improve their farming equipment.