101 ways to reduce your rubbish

[Andy Hamilton]

1. bake your own bread
2. Make your own snacks to cut down on wrapper.
3. recycle as much as you can.

[Shirley]

4. Buy fruit and veg at greengrocers or farm shop or farmers' markets - take your own cloth bags to hold the veggies.
5. Always carry a bag or three!!!
6. Avoid buying individual cartons of juice - buy a large carton (or better still, make your own) and decant it.

[Wombat]

7. buy bulk in general
8. Buy to last
9. compost, compost compost (putrescible waste anyway....)

[Ranter]

10. Buy less
11. If you buy eggs, buy from a place that takes back the boxes for re-use.
12. Re-use eg plastic milk bottles (sorry, can't get glass) in fridge & freezer to fill up space & therefore reduce energy needed to chill.

[the.fee.fairy]

join the post preference thingy so you get less junk mail.

leave packaging at the supermarket.

use paper more than once, use everything more than once in fact.

Reuse bottles, jars etc for sauces/freezing stuff/jam etc

[Stonehead]

17. Die.
18. Get buried in a recycled, organic cardboard box.
19. Become worm food.
20. Become fertiliser for a walnut tree.

Too drastic?

21. Don't shave or cut your hair.
22. Don't wash more than once a month.
23. Don't have children (quite easy I suspect if you're doing 21 and 22).
24. Wear your clothes until they fall off, then join a nudist colony.
25. Use the remains of your clothes for rags, bedding, or bandages for your bleeding feet.
26. Sleep in your wheelie bin, preventing yourself or anyone else using it for rubbish.

Not fun?

27. Instead of going nude as per 24, wear plastic wrapping. It's all the rage in a certain kind of club...
28. Share a bath, the more the merrier. Again, quite popular in certain circles...
29. Forget latex, bring back the sheep's intestine!

[Shirley]

omg to several of those.... but particularly number 29 !! LOL