Top Five Waste Reducing Tips for Christmas

According to new research the average person in Britain will go through a staggering three bin bags of rubbish each this Christmas that’s about 125 million bags of rubbish just sitting around Britain this festive season.

People will be hosting their family and friends, the amount of food and drink being purchased and stockpiled through family homes around the world is reaching massive proportions.

You and Your faimly might create too much rubbish, food waste, wrapping paper, packaging, bottles and plastic containers.

In Britain, 40% of people saying they will throw away food, almost 15% saying they will throw away plastic bottles. More than one in ten won’t recycle food packaging and the same amount won’t recycle wrapping paper while a fifth admit that they will recycle less during that time than we do in a normal week.

So here are,

Top Five Waste Reducing Tips for Christmas:

1.    Get organised by having separate bags and containers ready to fill with different types of rubbish.

2.    Save on card this Christmas, by sending e-season’s greetings cards instead.

3.    Wrap up leftover food as soon as you’re finished to make into meals and snacks on Boxing Day

4.    Instead of buying lots of bottled drinks – make your own.

5.    Make recycling fun for your kids by making it a competition to see who can collect the most recyclable items over the weekend and get them to save all their wrapping paper to be used for next year.