Reduce Waste and Recyling

• Recycle as much of your waste as possible. Think about what you put into an ordinary bin. Make it easy to recycle - keep small containers or bags in convenient places in your home to collect items to recycle. The recycling can mostly be collected by the council, or take it to the recycling bins at most supermarkets; you don’t even need to make a special trip for it!
• Reuse or repair something instead of throwing it away.
• Borrow or rent something instead of buying new stuff, or consider buying used items.
  Recycling includes buying recycled items - in fact it's one the most important parts of the recycling process. Look for products that contain the largest amounts of "post-consumer waste."
• If your office or school doesn't recycle paper, take home any papers that you are finished with to recycle; over just a few weeks it can amount to a significant amount. And kick up a fuss until a recyling scheme is started! See our resources page.
• A compost bin in the garden can be used to dispose of uncooked food waste; and the resulting product can be used on the garden plants.
• Stop using disposable plastic bags. Take re-usable shopping bags with you.
• At the supermarket: avoid products with ridiculous amounts of packaging. If you have the time, send an email to their customer care department to complain about it - if enough people boycott these products, the companies will change

What about food waste?

Get a Green Cone!

No smell, no fuss, they digest all your food waste, including cooked meat. Most councils sell them cheaply - Guildford Borough Council supplies them for only £5.