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. 

 

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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