Been thinking about this thread for a while and inspired by GG and Frankenstein over in GGC.
What's the waste situation in your house/local area like? I make an active effort to try and reduce the stuff that goes in my general waste and I think I do a pretty good job. My purple general waste bin is usually only half full every fortnight whereas my recycling bin is more than full. I have a separate bathroom bin for recycling bottles and I try and use bars for
sushi soap (
) and shampoo when showering. I've actually had to separate out plastic and glass bottles and then go to the tip a few times recently because my recycling bin is so full I had a backlog. I've now brought my Soda Stream out of retirement to try and reduce my plastic bottle use.
My area doesn't have those little brown bins for food waste so I made a small wormery to try and deal with that in a more eco-friendly way. Surprisingly my kitchen doesn't stink!
I do my best to separate out e-waste and batteries. I'm fortunate that my work have one of those battery bins so I can use that fairly easily.
Plastic bags are an issue. I mildly annoyed my wife a couple of years ago by creating a new waste stream for plastic bags. Took them all to the tip and got told to just throw them in general waste
- has anyone actually seen one of those recycling points "at larger supermarkets?!"
I've seen a service at Pets at Home where you can wash out pet food pouches and take them in. Anyone do that? I don't but I probably should. I've resigned myself to just throwing away cat litter - I once bought a bag of eco friendly paper litter and the cat retaliated by doing a gooseberry fool in our washing basket