Ten Tips to Reducing Your Waste

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1. Buy products in packaging that you know can be recycled.
2. Compost your kitchen and garden waste at home using a home composter or compost heap. This can help reduce your waste by up to 25% and fertilise your soil for nothing.
3. Fed up with receiving junk mail? Write to Mail Preference Services, Freepost 22, LONDON, W1E 7EZ. This will enable you to remove your name from mailing lists which are sold to companies who produce junk mail.
4. Don't throw away unwanted clothes, toys or household goods. Charity shops and organisations are always in need of such materials. Hospitals and doctors surgeries would always welcome your unwanted toys and books.
5. Paper costs money to purchase and dispose of. Whether you are at home, school or work, don't waste paper, use both sides.
6. If you feel a product has too much packaging, contact the manufacturer - or don't buy it in the first place.
7. Buy your milk in glass bottles from the milkman. Milk bottles can be reused up to 24 times before being recycled.
8. When shopping take your own reusable shopping bags. If you have to use plastic bags reuse them when you go back to the shops or use them as kitchen bin liners.
9. Don't use throw away items such as plastic and polystyrene plates and cups.
10. Food is a perishable commodity. Do not buy more than you need.