Zero Waste Resources
GET INVOLVED
What you can do in your home and daily life:
- Home composting
- Leave packaging in the shop
- Avoid buying anything with non-recyclable packaging
- Recycle as much as possible –
- Use re-use networks (Freegle / Freecycle & charity shops)
- Make use of/contribute to repair services (Transition Towns)
- Waste less food – buy less, freeze more
- Find out if there any relevant ‘green champion’ schemes at work. Join it, or set one up.
What you can work for in your area:
- Support local food banks, branch of Freegle, anti-incineration group
- Promote Zero Waste Leaflet & Bin the Burners campaign
- Call for more to be accepted by your Council for recycling at kerbside
- Support weekly separate collection of food waste for composting of anaerobic digestion
- Call for more ambitious local recycling targets, e.g. in the local Waste Core Strategy
FREE ONLINE ZERO WASTE SERVICES
- Freegle – Find and offer items for re-use locally
- Freecycle UK – Find and offer items for re-use locally
- Recyclenow – Find local recycling opportunities in England
- The Real Junk Food Project – Find your nearest “pay as you feel” cafe (which prevents edible food going to incineration/landfill)
RELEVANT WEB PAGES
- Zero Waste Case Studies (zerowasteeurope.eu)
- https://www.zerowasteeurope.eu/zw-library/reports/ Zero Waste Europe reports (zerowasteeurope.eu)
- Zero Waste UK
- Zero Waste Week
RELEVANT DOCUMENTS (PDF)
Recycling guides from high-recycling councils
- South Oxfordshire District Council (recycled 67% of household waste in 2015/16)
- North Somerset Council (recycled 59% of household waste in 2015/16)
- South Cambridgeshire Council (recycled 57% of household waste in 2015/16)
UK Zero Waste Blogs
- MyZeroWaste (Mrs Green / Rachelle Strauss)
- The Zero Waste Diet (Karen Cannard)
- ZeroWasteWeek Blog (Rachelle Straus)
If there are any resources that you think should be added to this page then please contact coordinator@ukwin.org.uk.