Top tips on recycling:
- 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.
- Donate your old mobile phone to charity rather than leaving it in the bottom of a drawer or, worse, sending it to landfill.
- 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.
- 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 Scrap Store Network for a list of locations.
For further information on Recycling click on the links below
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