Waste Wednesday: Take It, Don’t Leaf It

Most councils do not recycle greasy pizza boxes. Try to tear off the cleaner parts to recycle first.

Never use face wipes as they are mostly plastic and not recyclable

Ditch the wipes (cleaning or make-up wipes) and opt for something that can be recycled (more companies are doing this nowadays) or reused.

We use a local milkman to deliver milk in glass bottles to reduce our plastic waste. The milk is local too!

Old plastic bottles can have their tops cut off and used as a funnel or put it in the bottom part of the bottle upside down, with some sugar water or jam and water and create a wasp catcher in the summer. 

Beeswax wraps are amazing and SO pretty. Can be used for so many different things as well.

I try to fix things, or have them fixed by somebody smarter who knows how, to keep them sustainable. This applies to everything, but particularly technology, from a faulty mobile phone to a car. And some people say newer cars are greener, which they might be, but keeping an old car on the road, rather than creating a whole new one, makes more environmental sense to me.

I loved the fabric so much but the kids said it was too babyish! (Youngest was 16 by then so curtains were 20 years old...)

I wanted to find a way to re-use the bottles in a fun way!

Sustainability Week continues tomorrow with Transport Thursday! We'll be back with a new article matching this theme, looking at alternative, more sustainable, ways you can travel around.