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Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Your Waste

REDUCE

There are a number of ways you can reduce the amount of waste you create:

  • Avoid over-packaged products
  • Buy loose fruit or vegetables
  • Use a fabric shopping bag, rather than disposable carriers
  • Buy durable products rather than disposable ones (eg tableware, razors, rechargeable batteries)
  • Buy large packets and bottles, rather than lots of small ones
  • Buy concentrated products and refills, where available
  • Use both sides of a sheet of paper
  • Use reusable nappies instead of disposables.
  • Use long-lasting or energy saver low energy light bulbs
  • Use a lunch box or plastic container for your sandwiches, rather than foil or clingfilm
  • Choose not to receive junk mail - contact the mailing preference service, Freepost 22, London, W1E 7EZ, Tel: 0845 7034599.
REUSE

Before throwing something away, stop and think. Can that item be reused by you or anyone else?

  • Reuse plastic carrier bags, they are useful as bin liners
  • Reuse plastic containers such as margarine or ice-cream tubs as storage containers or lunchboxes
  • Take unwanted clothes, books, toys etc to charity shops
  • Plastic food trays can be used as seed trays
  • Compost kitchen and garden waste
  • Buy rechargeable batteries
  • Use the milkman and return your bottles
  • Reuse the reverse side of all paper and use scrap paper for messages or shopping lists
  • Buy and sell second hand items at car boot or jumble sales, or use an on- line auction site.