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52Eco#5 Make recycling easier.


Put a recycling box in your kitchen and a recycling box in your bathroom.


Make sure you have a recycling box on each floor of your house. I like these DRAGAN boxes from Ikea for bathroom storage and the these SORTERA lidded bins from Ikea for kitchen/garage storage..


Your bathroom recycling bin will probably receive; toilet rolls, soap packaging, tampon boxes, toothpaste boxes, card clothes tags, cardboard medication boxes, metal aerosol cans, empty plastic shampoo bottles, empty cleaning product bottles etc. All of this waste can be recycled kerbside and shouldn't end up in the regular bathroom bin.


You can also put any flexible 'soft' plastic wrapping (plastic wrapping around loo rolls, plastic wrapping around packs of sanitary pads, plastic wrapping around individual tampons, the plastic bags that cotton wool comes in, plastic film that seal products in, flexible plastic refill pouches etc) to one side, as it can be recycled at large Sainsbury's, large Tesco stores and at many Co-op stores. Large Morrisons stores accept only stretchy plastic wrapping, so check this list before you go to Morrisons with your bag of plastic recycling.


Empty toothpaste tubes we save separately for Terracycle (via a local dental hospital) and we take empty foil medication blister packs to a large Superdrug with an in-store pharmacy.


If there is just a regular bin available, that is what will be used. If there is somewhere neat to store recycling as it is created, in different areas of the house, you will notice less rubbish being put into your general waste bin - try making recycling easier and see if you notice a difference when you put the bins out.

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