Managing your daily rubbish and keeping an eye on keeping the environment clean and waste-free is almost impossible for people who have a busy work schedule after which they have to manage their families as well. One can dump their trash in the trash cans and wait for the garbage truck come and take it away. Nonetheless, making sure every type of garbage is packed in separate bags with tags on them just like a skip hire Tameside would do, seems a bit too much to ask. However, if we want to live a zero-waste life, we can still make a change by following the 5 R’s of zero waste living.
Refuse
When you hear the word refuse, you may get confused as to what you should refuse. Here, we are not talking about the things that are gifted to you or refuse if anyone asks you out on coffee. By refusing, it means that you should not stack up things that you take just because they were free of cost. For example, you get your hand on a free pen or you get extra straws with your drink that are of no use to you or any shirt that was up for free just because of a promotion. You wouldn’t be using these things, and they will end up soon as junk. Instead of adding up to your junk, try saying “No, Thank you!” for the things you don’t actually need.
Reduce
The next R is for reducing, which means that you should be aware of all the things that you own and that you need from them. There are a lot of clothes, shoes, and accessories in your wardrobe that you don’t plan to wear anymore. Not only that, books, pens, stationery items, gifting papers, and a lot of other stuff will be stacked up in your room that is of no use for you. Instead of waiting for them to be no longer useable and binned to trash, donate them so that they will of use for the needy. In this way, you will also get a cleaner space.
Reuse (and repair)
Buying a green alternative and using DIY tricks to reuse your old stuff is another way to go zero-waste. Repairing is also an element of reuse, which means that instead of throwing old stuff into dump yards, try to fix them if they still have some life in them.
Recycle
Recycling is a process that you cannot really do by yourself. The best you can do is to buy different coloured trash bins and label them with the type of garbage you will dump in it. This will make it easier for recycling companies to select the right type of trash.
Rot
If you have a garden outside your house, this is the easiest one for you. The last R is Rot that involves composting of all the organic waste by burying it into the soil and converting it into fertilizers.
