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How to Throw a Zero Waste Kid’s Party

Piles of paper plates and cups, a mountain of disposable cutlery, and lots of leftover food. This is usually what’s left at the end of the average kid’s birthday party. The mountain of waste not only hurts your pocket, it hurts the planet. But the good news is that by making a few savvy changes, you can throw your little ones a party to remember with zero waste.

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How to Throw a Zero Waste Barbecue

As temperatures rise and hopefully continue to do so, thoughts turn to throwing a barbecue. While we don’t want to dash your dreams of ice cold beers and juicy burgers, have you thought about how much waste the average barbecue creates?

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How to Reduce Fruit and Vegetable Waste

Do you stock up on fruit and veg at the supermarket, all full of good intentions, only to notice that after barely a week, your lettuce has gone limp, and your carrots have gone shrivelled and dry?

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Make Friends with Your Fridge and Freezer to Cut Down on Food Waste

How much food do you waste? Do you have a mouldy block of cheese hiding in the back of your fridge, or some leftovers that are past their best?

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Reduce Waste This Easter by Making Your Own Chocolate Eggs

With Easter on the horizon, have you ever thought about the amount of packaging that comes with the 80 millions eggs that are sold in the UK each year.  One way to reduce this amount is to make your own Easter egg.   

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Reducing Waste: Schools

Schools in England throw enough waste away every day to fill 185 double-decker buses! Most of this waste could be avoided by reducing waste, reusing items, and recycling wherever possible. If schools cut down on waste, it’s good news for budgets and the environment. Here’s our guide on how schools can be greener.

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Reducing Waste - Food and Drink Processing

If you already own a food and drinks manufacturing business, you already know that you would get through huge quantities of raw materials, energy and water, but if you use these resources efficiently, you can really reduce your costs and help increase your profits.

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Reducing Waste: Retail

Packaging is the biggest source of waste in the retail industry, the best way to combat this is to not produce it in the first place, if this is not an option you would need to think about reducing, reusing and recycling waste.  

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Delicious Leftover Recipes to Make Your Bonfire Night Go With a Bang

With firework night now over and done with for another year, you may have had a lot of food on the go which can equate to a lot of food waste.  We have compiled a list of recipes which you could use to reduce the amount of food ending up in the waste.

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Don't Put Your Identity in the Bin

We are always advised about protecting our personal data online but why do we still put confidential waste in our wheelie bins at home, information from bank statements can be used by criminals to steal someones identity and apply for credit applications in their name. 

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