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|Recycling A to Z
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It's harvest time! Buy your seasonal fruits such as plums and apples loose rather than in lots of packaging, and make sure you put all your fruit peelings in your compost bin.
Autumn is a great time of year to garden clear out your garden and fill up your compost bin. Then your compost will ready to use by spring. Visit our |home composting guide for hints for making the best compost. Don't forget to cut up and compost your Halloween pumpkin too!
Now that autumn is here it's time to deal with all those fallen leaves. Instead of overfilling your compost bin you can turn them into really useful |leaf mulch.
Back to school? A great way to reduce your daily waste is to make waste free lunchboxes. Avoid taking your lunch to school or work in a plastic bag. Use a reusable airtight container or lunchbox instead. By keeping the container clean you wont need extra wrappers for your food. Instead of taking single-use cartons of drink, opt forbottles that you can use over and over again. Try giving individual crisp bags or mini biscuit packets a miss - instead wrap up small quantities of crisps and biscuits from bigger packets.
Now that it's getting colder, we eat less salads and more warming food such as soups and broths. Don't forget to recycle your cans and tins. Put them in your blue-topped recycling bin. You can leave the labels on them. Don't forget, you can recycle can and tin lids too.
Use of recycled products such as stationary. There are many companies that sell recycled stationery products that are brilliant for the start of the new school term, and they're cool too! A great example is the Remarkable range, available at www.remarkable.co.uk.
Guy Fawkes Night is round the corner. Only burn dry material and never burn household rubbish, rubber tyres, or anything containing plastic, foam or paint. Never use old engine oil, meths or petrol to light the fire or encourage it. Dispose of fireworks carefully in your refuse bin
Recycle! Don't forget you can now recycle glass bottles and jars in your blue top bin.