WASTE
Specific Actions:
- Look for ways to reduce the amount of your household waste than ends up in landfill.
- Purchase items that support employment in developing countries and use renewable resources for example traditional handicrafts.
- Purchase goods made from recycled products
- Purchase appliances that can be easily recycled
- Avoid items that have excess packaging
- Recycle your clothes & household items through community secondhand shops
- Plant a vegetable garden to provide fresh vegetables and exercise
- Compost your green household waste
- Have 2 bins in your kitchen & carefully sort your household waste before disposing of it in the correct bin
- Have bills and bank statements sent to you electronically
- Buy paper and wood products produced from sustainable forests
- Use recyclable bags rather than plastic bags
