Tips to slim down your household bin

• Think before throwing anything away – can it be reused for something else?
• Have a garden composter for organic waste like vegetable peelings, food leftovers, teabags, fruit peelings, garden waste and divert 1/3 of your waste away from landfill
• Buy fruit and vegetables that have no unnecessary packaging, e.g. bananas don’t need a bag
• Where possible, buy groceries packed in recyclable packaging like glass or cardboard instead of foil and plastic
• Where possible buy goods in larger containers, e.g. a 10kg bag of rice instead of regularly purchasing 1kg bags of rice
• Use a lunchbox for your sandwiches or salad and don’t wrap them in plastic
• Buy a battery recharger and use recyclable batteries
• Save all glass jars and bottles and bring them to your local Glass Bank for recycling
• If you have a green bin/bag at home be sure to use it for newspapers, magazines, junk mail, pizza / cereal boxes, milk / juice cartons, food tins and drinks cans as well as other materials
• If there is a recycling centre close to where you live or work, be sure to bring old batteries, plastic bottles and bags and any other materials they accept for recycling