We find card in all shapes and sizes at home, including cereal packets, kitchen rolls and corrugated cardboard boxes. It’s easy to use card over and over again.
Reduce
Ask for deliveries to be made in one go so you don’t get lots of small boxes.
Buy large boxes of cereal – they have less packaging than the same amount of cereal in smaller boxes.
Buy refills or take your own packaging to the shops
Tell your local supermarket if there’s too much card packaging around your food.
Reuse
Save cardboard boxes when you move home, flatten them to use when you move again or lend them to a friend.
Use them to store items in the loft, under your bed or in the wardrobe.
Ask your local school or playgroup if they need cardboard boxes for craft projects.
Use cardboard boxes as wrapping around items when you post them.
Cut out shapes from cardboard to make templates for sewing or painting.
Put cardboard behind photographs to stop them moving around in frames.
Make a doorstop or a draft insulator using cardboard
Recycle
Remove the tape and plastic film before recycling using your recycling service
Shred or rip it up in to small pieces to put in your compost bin
Composting, as WRAP explains, is an inexpensive, natural process that transforms your kitchen and garden waste into a valuable and nutrient rich food for your garden. It’s easy to make and use. Home composting is easy to do and great for the environment as it prevents food & garden waste being sent to energy from waste.…