20 Novel Ways and Websites to Help Reduce Waste

Posted by Olly Robinson on 27 January 2009 | 0 Comments

Tags: Environment

1. Recycle your old mobile phone and get money back
www.mobilephonexchange.co.uk

2. Reuse household items in novel ways
www.junkk.com

3. Buy energy-efficient light bulbs
www.efficientlight.co.uk

4. Send e-cards instead of paper cards for Christmas
www.jacquielawson.com

5. Avoid plastic carrier bags when possible, use a cotton one instead
www.geccobags.co.uk

6. Buy local groceries instead of packaged supermarket groceries
www.farmersmarkets.net

7. Buy cotton cloths for the kitchen instead of kitchen roll
www.soorganic.com

8. Home compost kitchen and garden waste
www.recyclenow.com/compost

9. Reduce junk mail through your door by signing up with the Mailing Preference Service, DMA House, 70 Margaret St, London, W1W 8SS
www.mpsonline.org.uk

10. Join a toy library to borrow toys and give old ones to other families
www.samaritanspurse.org

11. Recycle drinks cartons (75% paper, 20% polyethylene, 5% aluminium foil)
www.reversevending.co.uk

12. Recycle old curtains or exchange them at:
www.thecurtainexchange.net

13. Install spray taps for new sinks and other water-efficient products
www.eca-water.gov.uk

14. Use cloth nappies for babies – 15% of parents now do
www.realnappiesforlondon.org.uk

15. Give cinema, concert or event tickets as gifts instead of disposable goods, or give a gift of helping someone in the developing world
www.oxfamunwrapped.com

16. Donate your old tools to Africans
www.tfsr.org

17. Recycle old CDs
www.cdvds.co.uk/Recycle_CDs.html

18. Get a log maker, which will turn old newspapers into pulp logs that will burn for up to an hour
www.naturalcollection.com

19. Give things away to others – join a Freecycle network
www.freecycle.org

20. Don’t throw away old computers,
recycle them - www.wasteonline.org.uk
sell them – www.ebay.co.uk
donate them to charity – www.digital-links.org