Waste Wise Tip #4

If you would like to reduce your impact on the planet, rethinking waste is a great start. We buy our waste when we go shopping, choosing items that come in lots of packaging, buying more than we need, or buying things we could source in other ways, such as borrowing. As a result, we often end up discarding things wastefully and sending them to landfill. Instead, we can start to be waste wise by asking questions like “do I really need to buy this?”, “could I borrow/share/buy it secondhand instead of brand new?” and “instead of throwing it out, could something better be done with it?”