Throw-away culture - what a mess we're in!

Our throw-away culture is risking people's health and squandering the world's natural resources.

Prioritising recycling and investing in waste reduction would go a long way to solving the waste crisis. Instead the Government is opting for wide-scale incineration.

For a sustainable future . . .

• Reduce - the amount of the Earth's resources that we use.

  • Be more efficient and simply just reduce consumption.

  • Don't be led astray by those adverts.

  • Think about what you need rather than what you want.

• Reuse - don't just bin it, could someone else make use of it?

  • Sell unwanted items e.g. at a local jumble sale or on ebay.

  • Give them away to a friend.

  • Freecycle - a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own town

• Recycle - can the materials be made into something new?