While governments, organisations and industry work together to find solutions, there are actions you can take to make positive environmental change right now. For example:
- Cut your food waste wherever possible – over 35% of household rubbish to landfill is food waste. Be inspired by these easy tips and tricks: https://www.sanitarium.co.nz/health-nutrition/mind/5-tips-to-cut-food-waste
- Reduce your use of single-use items such as plastic bags wherever possible.
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Check the recycling instructions on necessary food packaging, as shown by the Australasian Recycling Label, and recycle the right items in your kerbside recycling bin. Recycling is valuable both environmentally and economically as a resource.
- Take soft plastics to participating supermarkets for recycling through NZ Soft Plastics Recycling Scheme.
- Compost unavoidable food scraps to keep them out of landfill and reuse them as a resource on your garden.
Recycling Basics
Recycling has become second nature to most of us, yet many people are still confused about which bin to use and what to do with those tricky materials like bottle caps and soft plastics.
We and many other brands are adopting the Australasian Recycling Label to help clarify recycling instructions on food packaging and boost recycling rates, recovering these materials as resources.