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Waste

Waste

Re-use

Practical ways to re-use waste at home  

  • Take unwanted toys and books, to hospitals, play centers or schools. 
  • Give unwanted clothes to opportunity shops or used clothing bins. 
  • Use empty plastic packaging containers for freezing or storing food items. 
  • Save wrapping paper and boxes to use again. 
  • Use old jars for storage or for when making homemade jam or preserves. 
  • Take old magazines to your local doctors' or dentists surgery.
      Re-use what you can

    • Practical ways to re-use waste at work 

    • Donate old computers to schools or community education centers. 
    • Use waste packaging on inward goods such as boxes and wooden pallets for storing materials or for dispatching your own product. 
    • Make memo pads out of waste paper. 
    • Re-use envelopes-purchase reuse labels. 
    • Register with your local waste exchange programme.

    Waste Exchange Programmes

    Waste exchange programmes provide a way of re-using waste. Waste exchanges try to match up generators of waste with companies interested in re-using or recycling waste.

    In Canterbury there are four waste exchange programmes: 

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