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23-04-2008, 04:40 PM
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Reducing Landfill - Doing my bit!!
Yaaaaaaay, I'm almost there!!!! I've started composting, am making a real effort not to buy pre-packaged stuff where I can and have used Freecycle to get rid of loads of stuff that still had a bit of life left in it as well as re-using stuff like yoghurt pots in the garden, and for the first time ever when I put my bin bags out this week....... where there used to be 5 or more bags....... there'll only be one!!!!! Not bad for a family of 5!!
    
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23-04-2008, 04:49 PM
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That's excellent! Our council collect fortnightly and alternate with a garden waste collection. The normal bin is usually only half full and the garden waste bin is used for cardboard mostly as I try and compost everthing else.
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23-04-2008, 06:47 PM
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Brilliant. People will say you make no difference on your own, but you do: you have reduced your own waste by what, 80% ? (no good at mental maths, me) and you've probably inspired others to do so too. You could also write to companies and retailers asking them to reduce the amount of packaging they use.
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23-04-2008, 07:39 PM
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Well I did make a point in Asda of taking the strawberries out of the punnet at the till and popping them in a plastic bag, but the girl on the checkout made such a big deal of it, that I haven't bothered since
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23-04-2008, 08:26 PM
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23-04-2008, 08:44 PM
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recycling
Another good recycling/reusing website is Virtual skips from vSkips - the ORIGINAL virtual skip site.
When I do my big food shop I use the paper mushroom bags to put my small fruit/veg items in. They dont like it, but no-one has said I cant do it - yet! As the year goes on hopefully I'll only have to carry stuff from the veg plot.
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01-07-2008, 04:28 PM
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I used all paper bags for my fruit and veg today. Then it can all go on the heap. People can't believe I only produce one small carrier bag of waste per fortnight, even though it's just me and the cat! I see bins outside small houses overflowing and it makes me mad. A friend of mine had to get a second bin because theirs was too full all the time. Two adults and a toddler! Gaggghh!!
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02-07-2008, 01:11 PM
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You can buy some handy little reuseable bags for weighing out veg (was talking to somebody selling them the other day) Plastic bag alternatives - Onya Weigh quite expensive to buy initially but am guessing that they'd last forever and then you wouldn't have the energy costs associated with making the mushroom bags either.
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