REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
Notice how the slogan is carefully worded?
Step one is to reduce your use of materials that are hard to recycle - that is your last option.
So how to reduce?
Please share any of your ideas, but here are a couple of mine:
- Don't use cling wrap to cover food. Use an upturned saucer or plate; aluminium foil is better, or baking paper. Store food in a glass-based container [does not absorb colours or odours].
- Refuse extra packaging or soy sauce fish. Don't take home the problem. Leave as much packaging as you can at the shops. Ask for paper bags, paper straws, ask the shop if there is an alternative product is materials that can go in your recycle bin.
- Take your own bags or grab a box. Most shops have boxes they can get rid of, if you forgot your bags.
- Pick your own fruit, not the wrapped ones. Do bananas really need a bag, when they already have their own skin? Same with oranges and other items that we don't eat the covering. Better to cut up your own veg than buy plastic!
These are just a few ideas. Please write down your best ones and send them to me or hand them to me at a meeting, with your recycling!
Remember to bring your plastic bottle caps and 10c deposit scheme containers to any of our meetings at kithbrooke. I will take them off your hands and get them to the right recycling centre. No waste, no mixed up materials that ruin our council's recycling efforts.
Thank you.
Judy Rutter
Environments.
