Waste

Waste

Mon 4th Dec 06 — admin

Recycling lorry being loaded

A doorstep recycling scheme in operation
Photo: Chris Brown, Cardiff Friends of the Earth.

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

Prioritising recycling and investing in waste reduction would go a long way to solving the
waste crisis.

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Reduce reuse and recycle your waste

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Mon 19th Jan 09 — Chris

Protestors dressed in recyclable rubbish with a mound of recyclable waste

Say no to Plastic Bags!

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Throwing things away is a waste of the resources and energy that have been used to make the product.

If we reduce, reuse and recycle instead of throwing things away, fewer new materials need to be quarried, mined or grown to make new things.

Garden waste can be composted reducing your waste by up to 40 percent.

Waste past actions

Thu 1st Jan 09 — Chris

Three group members picking up rubish on a beach

Group members cleaning up Ogmore beach

Message in a bottle

Mon 27th Sep 04 — admin

James Maiden, handing Councillor Simon Wakefield a bottle at City Hall

James Maiden from Cardiff Friends of the Earth handing Chair of the Environmental Scrutiny Committe, Simon Wakefield, a Message in a Bottle

Has Cardiff Council got the bottle?

Zero waste policy

A doorstep recycling scheme in operation

Zero Waste policy

Friends of the Earth believes that councils should adopt Zero Waste policies as a goal to be achieved within 25 years. Zero waste means we should:

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