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The easiest way I reckon is to start at the grocery store and only buy things that come in recyclable containers or have the smallest packaging. It ends up making a huge difference to your total waste :)

Written in August 2010

Jocelyn Carlin

Buy bulk where possible and organise efficent storage systems
otherwise buy items loose or minimal packaging and get into WORM farming!

Written in August 2010

Daniella SantosCoy

I am more concern with the waste of food, around 15% of the what we buy gets wasted because no one eats it. So I try to reuse all the food even the already cooked one into new dishes, sometimes mix many dishes in one.

Written in August 2010

Steve Racz

I can't imagine anyone here hasn't heard all of the ideas already, but my favourite is to start a compost pile. You don't need fancy plastic boxes, compost starter or any other 'green' gimmick. Really, compost just happens! You can practice cold composting, which is to say, just pile all organic materials from your kitchen, garden, woodshop ( no treated sawdust) in a corner of your yard and leave it. Nature will break it down over time. Just make sure to have more dry than wet stuff and neither you nor your neighbours will ever know it is there. Harvest the dark crumbly stuff at the bottom when you need it.

Written in August 2010

Richelle 135°

When making dinner, never throw away any of the leftovers. Put them into suitable containers and freeze whats left to reheat and enjoy at another time. I also have got into preserving again which is great especially when it isn't that particular season for fruit and vege. I am enjoying Fejoias that I preserved several months ago now and they are lovely to enjoy with ice cream, homemade custard, and a variety of other things. Also it gives glass containers another life time and time again when you use them preserve your food. Great to giveaway as presents too or when you have been invited out and you want to take something special as a guest.

Written in August 2010

Brian Adam 15°

Choose recipes and menus that use more of the whole beast/vegetable and connect your wastemaster to the compost.

Written in August 2010

BenZwartz 20°

I refill my ecostore dishwash liquid bottle (and soap too) at Commonsense Organics

Written in August 2010

Erena Hodgkinson 0°

Turn old food scraps into compost. Turn old crockery into mosaics. Turn old pots and jars into percussion instruments. Turn old grey dishwater into moisture for the garden...or wine if you can swing it!

Written in August 2010

Keren Neal

Ditch the extreme chemical household cleaners and use good old fashioned elbow grease instead.

Written in August 2010

Viv Williams

We buy organic raw milk direct from the farm, not only is it great for your health, but saves on those horrible plastic milk bottles! We get the milk in a 10 litre bucket, freeze 3 litres of it and use the rest throughout the week in glass bottles and 1.5 litre recyclable clear Charlies juice bottles. We used to go through five 2 litre plastic bottles a week and we have been getting farm milk for 1 1/2 years now so that's a saving of 390 plastic milk bottles YAY!!!

Written in August 2010

Wendy Phillips

If you have an accessible tree with lemons - Use the skins to disinfect your kitchen surfaces then wipe with clean damp cloth, then they go into the compost or to feed your worm farm. Go for concentrates if you do use commercial cleaners (mostly unnecessary anyway), less packaging. The lemons are terrific diluted for face wash and hair conditioner, cleaning fingernails (just shove them in a cut lemon, drinks with honey, grated peel for cooking, to flavour sugar, Vitamin C. Wonderful!

Written in August 2010

Pete Fowler

We pour all the grey water from the kitchen, like washing up water, on the garden. The detergent contains phosphorus and is a useful fertiliser. But not the outflow from the dishwasher, which is corrosive and poisons plants.

Written in August 2010

Anita Fleming

Living on my own means there could potentially be a bit of waste when things don't get eaten quickly. Here's how I've combated my own kitchen waste demons:
- Get a Bokashi composter
- Buy in bulk, divide up into mealsize portions, then freeze
- Use tuperware not gladwrap and wash ziplock bags for reuse
- Buy environmentally friendly cleaning products & packaging
- Use reusable grocery bags
- Save waste water for plants where possible
- Ensure the packaging bought can actually be recycled
Best of all, alot of this stuff saves time in cooking, money in bulk purchases, and is dead easy to implement (with a bit of pre-thought and organisation).

Written in August 2010

Deb Lucas

Buy only what you need; grow what you can. Use green bags that significantly slowdown the breakdown of ethylene gases that cause fresh veggies to go off, so that you actually do use what you buy. Make use of as much of the vegetable as you can; such as the broccoli stock for soups or casseroles. Then, compose any remainder. Full circle...and helps save money too!

Written in August 2010

Danielle East

We put all our vege scraps in a Bokashi compost bin outside the back door, which we then empty into a "pile" in the corner of a garden, mixed with wood chips from the veritable forest of privet that we removed from our native bush.
All meat scraps are then fed to "Boris", who is my fiancee's pet eel that lives in our creek. Boris will literally eat out of Paul's hand, although he's definately keener on white meat than red!

Written in August 2010

doppelganger 0°

We reuse all kitchen waste (except bones) and turn it into eggs via our nine lovely feathered friends. This then keeps four families in eggs every week.

Written in August 2010

martin adlington

Simple - buy less

Written in August 2010

Anke Nieschmidt

Grow what you can, then you only harvest what you need when you need it. Adopt a couple of guinea pigs, they love the bits you don't need, like the stalks and leaves.
Take your bulk bin bags back to the supermarket and refill them when you run low.

Written in August 2010

Jeanna 30°

Bin Inn is great for bulk foods but remember to take your own containers to put things in.
Compost as much as possible.
Make paper bricks or recycled paper.
Use reusable bags - onya bags even have mesh ones for your fruit and veges.
Freeze leftovers for another time
Send kids to school with no packaging - small containers or "naked lunchboxes"
Reduce, reuse, recycle, refuse!

Written in September 2010

Trisha Baird

Chickens, they eat scraps and you get the bonus of eggs!

Written in September 2010

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