Day 16: The great bin challenge
Our bins and recycling boxes
How did we do it? Well nothing went to the local dump, in our neighbours’ bins or anywhere else for that matter! We didn’t go away on holiday. We were careful with what we threw away, and made sure that we recycled everything possible. I try not to buy things with plastic packaging, but it is not always possible at Christmas.
I make sure every cardboard clothes tag and piece of card or paper packaging goes in the brown bin, together with every scrap of the food that couldn’t be turned into something else or fed to the dog. I don’t put any food waste into the green bin: even in summer. meat and fish waste goes into the ‘composting’ bin and the bin sits outside the back door without any problems. Several items have been or will be Freecycled and we have a couple of carrier bags ready to take to the Oxfam shop.
But we do benefit from an excellent recycling collection schemehere in Three Rivers – and still have weekly waste collections – all thanks to that lovely LibDem council. And as next Christmas falls on a Friday, we’ll have the chance to try it all over again!
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