how to minimise your household rubbish – day six
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Not long to go, dear readers, before you find out exactly why we have been keeping a bin inventory this week. I hope you’ll think it was worth it. I hope I do too – it’s been an astonishing amount of work to itemise all this stuff!
paper – 231g
couple of free newspapers
leaflets put through the door
butter wrapper
metal – 95g
pineapple tin
soup tin
glass – 1.32kg
I’ve been scraping out the last bits from several jars:
2 curry sauce jars
2 honey pots
jar of olives
cardboard – 114g
pizza box
toothpaste tube box
outers from yogurt pots
tetrpaks – 39g
1 soya milk carton
Food – 430g
Fruit and vegetable peelings
plastic / misc – 111g
4 yogurt pots and lids
toothpaste tube
chocolate raisins bag
dried fruit bag
plastic wrapping from pizza
crisps bag
milk bottle
TOTAL WEIGHT 2.34kg
What happens to all the stuff?
- Paper, metal and glass can be put out for kerbside collection. Find out what your council collect by contacting your local office
- Cardboard and tetrapaks will be stored for taking to our local recycling centre next time we are passing by. With spring on the doorstep, I’ll start keeping shredded cardboard for the compost heap. Find out where your nearest recycling centre is with Recycle Now.
- Food is all raw food scraps such as fruit and vegetable peelings and eggs shells. These will be composted.
- The 3 gms of plastic are all type 4, which can be put in with supermarket carrier bags in SOME stores. Alternatively, it can be stored up and sent off to Polyprint for recycling.
- Yogurt pots and lids will either be saved and donated to a local school or playgroup for art use or sent to GHS for recycling.
- The plastic milk bottle can be recycled at our local recycling centre next time we are passing by.
- The rest of the items (toothpaste tube, chocolate raisins bag, dried fruit bag, plastic pizza wrapping and crisp packet are non recyclable and will end up in the landfill.
All in all it weighed 2.34kgs of which 30g (the 5 non recyclable items) will end up in landfill waste.
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SNAP! My children had that exact same pizza last night as I wasn’t up to cooking 🙂
phew! glad to know I’m in good company. I’ve never bought anything like this before 😀