Top recycling tips below:
- When you have finished with them, take your magazines to your local doctors’ or dentists’ surgery for the waiting room.
- Compost your kitchen and garden waste and save money on buying compost for your garden. Take a look at our Home Composting page for more information.
- Why not recycle old jam jars by using them to store homemade produce or in the garage for screws and nails?
- Reuse scrap paper for writing notes and lists and reuse envelopes and jiffy bags by sticking a label over the address.
- Reuse plastic bags for future shopping trips or as rubbish bags and invest in reusable shopping bags. Many supermarkets have them at very reasonable prices. Visit our Eco Friendly Bags page for more information.
- Donate your old mobile phone to charity rather than leaving it in the bottom of a drawer or, worse, sending it to landfill. Visit our Mobile Phone Recycling page for more information.
- Recycle ice-cream tubs and take-away cartons for storing food, small toys or DIY items.
- Recycle old rolls of wallpaper for children’s drawings.
- Give your old clothes and shoes to a charity shop or deposit them in a clothes bank. Visit our Clothes Recycling page for more information.
- Recycle toys by buying second hand, selling your old toys at a car boot sale or donating them to charity. Visit our Recycle Toys page for more information.
- Buy Recycled Products; an increase in demand will result in an increase in supply!
- Use a scrap store – you can donate your scrap or buy items for use in crafts. Visit the National UK Scrapstore Directory for a list of locations.
For further information on Recycling Tips click on the links below
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