Avoiding reducing and reusing our waste

Avoiding waste is the best thing we can do. Natural resources have been saved. Nothing has been used, discarded or sent for recycling or buried in landfill. Avoiding waste isn't easy and takes discipline at all levels.

Here’s some tips:

  • Choose reusable plates and cutlery for events, functions and picnics
  • Take your own shopping bags to the supermarket
  • Use a drink bottle instead of buying drinks.
  • Take your own coffee cup to the café.
  • Say no to straws
  • Only shop for what you need
  • Pre-plan meals to reduce food waste

Choosing reuse options saves money and the environment what's not to like about reuse.

The waste hierarchy underpins the management of waste in NSW. 

 

 

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