Waste Minimisation at Home

Make sure you put all your vegetables, fruit, dead plants and anything that can be broken down in a compost bin. If you have a shredder then woody plants and sticks can be shredded and either put in the compost heap or scattered over the flower beds.

Save your paper and ask your local council whether your they will collect it. Make sure you use paper on both sides and keep a scrap paper box for paper that has only been used on one side.   

Don't throw  your plastics in the bin  you can throw them in a plastics bank for recycling  or some council collect them off the door step.  

Reuse, and Recycle your glass, go down to the bottle bank and throw them in. Its simple its easy and its a quick way to get rid of your bottles also and it saves our environment.  Don't put milk bottles in the bottle bank, return them to your milkman, he will reuse them again and again. This is even better than recycling the glass. 

Stamps and Silver foil

Donate your stamps and silver foil to charity, you can give your stamps to charity shops and you can give them to Blue Peter or PDSA.

Books and Clothing

You can collect books and clothing plus shoes for the salvations army there is normally a collection point  by your local bottle back. 

Tins

You can collect your tins and they are collected by  council or recycle bank.