Over 50% of most people’s household waste can be recycled, and this includes glass bottles, drinks cans, plastic food wrapping and paper. Kitchen and garden waste such as vegetable peelings and hedge clippings can also be made into compost, and if you don’t have a garden yourself then many councils are now offering garden waste collection (for a small additional fee), which are then fed onto the councils compost heaps used for municipal gardens and borders.
Here a few tips on how to recycle more effectively and reduce the amount of waste your household produces:
- All UK councils now provide recycled collections every fortnight, but some of these can exclude items such as glass or aluminium. Set up an extra bin or box for those items that are not collected from your door, and take them to your local recycling centre yourself once a month.
- Kitchen Waste – shopping every day can reduce food waste by as much as 50%, as you will only buy what you need for that day, and vegetables and fruit will not go off. Weigh everything you cook carefully, to avoid leftovers that
- could be thrown away and wasted, and try to cook craftily and use up foods that maybe going out of date such as bread, which can be made into a breadcrumb topping or bread and butter pudding.
- Junk Mail – nearly 80% of junk mail gets thrown in the bin without being read, so contact the Mail Preference Service and get your name taken off the marketing mailing lists, to reduce junk mail to your address.
- Buy recycled packaging and paper whenever possible, as this supports the recycling chain and helps to save materials such as wood and fuel.
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