Reducing Waste In Merton
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Furniture & non-electrical
Often found in fly tipped heaps, there are a number of things we can do to reduce this type of waste including learning how to make simple fixes ourselves.
Tech & electrical
Are these too complicated and too difficult to repair? Learn about the initiatives that aim to demystify equipment repair.
Packaging
Everything comes wrapped in it these days, mostly plastic and a lot of it single use. Here are some ways to reduce it (still one of the hardest types of waste to address)
Construction
Have you counted the number of skips in a 1 mile radius around your house? Have you ever looked into them? Not surprisingly construction waste is one of the largest types of waste by weight in the U.K. Check out some useful resources for reclaimed construction material for your projects to lower the embodied/whole life carbon footprint of buildings.