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The real answer is a combination - but the obvious solutions include:

* Waste less. Tons of perfectly good food goes to landfill each year. You could probably hang onto your mobile phone for an extra year. Do you really need 12 pairs of shoes (thinking more about my wife for this one).
* Re-use and repair. If you can use something for longer before you throw it away, in most cases it's better for the environment. Support right to repair legislation.
* Recycle - recycling is hard. It has just about never been an economical prospect to recycle (other than glass bottles and aluminum cans). The trick is to build in the recyclability into the product. Make things easy to disassemble, use materials and components that can be more easily recycled. Require that product sellers take back used goods for recycling as part of the lifecycle.
* Most importantly - make sure all of the preceding points are considerations in your purchasing.

The obstacles are many, but one of the biggest ones is people over rating their contribution to being green based on what they said in a social media platform vs what they actually did for them selves.
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