Cutting back on waste
Ways to reduce and reuse your waste
Composting
Composting your waste is a cheap, natural process that allows you to recycle your kitchen and garden waste into valuable food for your garden. It is an easy way to reduce your waste by about a third. You can use the compost you create to help your garden grow.
Furniture re-use
If you have furniture items in good condition that you no longer want you can donate these to a local community scheme or charity. Mustard Tree collect donations of unwanted furniture or you can drop the items off at their warehouse or at the household waste and recycling centre on Cemetery Road in Radcliffe.
Recycle for Greater Manchester - What do I do with: furniture
Junk mail
An easy way to reduce your waste is to stop junk mail coming through your letter box.
Recycle for Greater Manchester - Reducing junk mail
Nappies
If you have young children in nappies you could switch to using real nappies which frees up space in your bin.
Find out more about cloth nappies at the Recycle for Greater Manchester website