Wasting less

Everything we buy or use has an impact on the natural world - from cans of baked beans to fridges.

We'll have to use and waste less in the future if we want to keep our planet healthy.

If everyone lived as we do in the UK, we'd need 3 planets.

But we're not here to make you feel guilty - we just have to be a bit smarter with our stuff:

• Reduce
  Only buying what we need
• Reuse
  Find new ways to use the things we throw away
• Recycle
  Better facilities for turning old stuff into new goods

And if we do all of that - we'll be using up less of our planet's precious resources.

Taking it further

Working together with people like you we've already persuaded the Government to make recycling easier. It's why you have a green box collection.

But we've got a long way to go to beat some other countries.  For example, Flanders, Belgium recycles over 70% of its waste. That's around twice as much as the UK.

And what we buy causes problems in some of the most vital parts of our planet - the forests.

Saving forests >

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