WASTE REDUCTION TIPS
Practical ways to reuse waste at home
- Take unwanted toys and books to hospitals, early childhood education centres or schools.
- Give unwanted clothes to opportunity shops or used clothing bins.
- Use empty plastic packaging containers for freezing or storing food items.
- Save wrapping paper and boxes to use again.
- Use old jars for storage or for homemade jam or preserves.
- Take old magazines to your local doctors' or dentists’ surgery.
- Shop at second hand stores or use trading websites and classifieds to purchase items that are unwanted by others.
- Donate household items or shop at your council’s resource recovery centre.
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Practical ways to reuse waste at work
- Donate old computers to schools or community education centres.
- Use waste packaging on inward goods e.g. boxes and wooden pallets, for storing materials or for dispatching your own product.
- Make memo pads out of waste paper.
- Re-use envelopes - purchase reuse labels.
- Use second hand stores, trading websites and classifieds to buy and sell used items.
- Register with your local waste exchange programme.
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