Zero Waste Week..

Zero Waste Week is a grassroots campaign, raising awareness of the environmental impact of waste and empowering participants to reduced waste.

Zero Waste Week has an outstanding global reach of 35 million people, it takes place annually on the first week of September and aims to teach the population how to preserve resources, learn new skills, stop wasting money, build confidence and improve wellbeing.

The website which can be found at https://www.zerowasteweek.co.uk and it prompts people to think about what happens to waste once it's thrown away, where is away'.

Some simple ways that people are advised to reduce household waste are:

• The three R's - (reduce, reuse and recycle)
• Use kerbside facilities - provided by councils to make it easy, all you have to do is sort your recycling
• Use local banks 
• Borrow and lend - ladders, electric drills and other household items that are only used occasionally can be lent out and borrowed to save waste and also money
• Donate - charity shops and Freecycle are a great and easy way to donate unwanted items
• Eat leftovers - taking that extra portion of dinner to work for lunch in tupperware and save money whilst also saving the packaging your lunch would usually come in
• Re-grow - re plant scraps of food to grow your own vegetable garden. 

• Invest in a recycling bin to replace your standard kitchen bin - take away the thinking 
• Opt out of junk mail 
• Inspire others