[minikites]

Exactly. Out of "recycle, reduce, reuse", the last two are the most important.

[derleth]

It's "reduce, reuse, recycle" because they're in descending order of importance. That is, reducing is better than reusing, which is better than recycling.

[minikites]

I just found this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_hierarchy

It's pretty good, I didn't know it was this intricate.