Reusing and recycling items can be harder in a COVID setting. Pre-COVID my school switched to using donated silverware instead of the one time use plastic silverware for school lunches, but they can no longer offer reusable silverware because of sanitary concerns. Solutions like these, reusing and recycling in bigger groups/settings, were the answer, but that door has been shut in our faces because of a preventable disease. But in a smaller, home setting, math things can be reused or recycled or even not used at all because of a better no-waste product. An example would be shampoo and conditioner bars, which lather like a soap bar and don't leave behind a big plastic bottle and sometimes cant be recycled. Always look for the better product and it could lower carbon footprints.