Handy Hints

 

 

 

 

Households waste around £410 per year on food they throw away*

* Figure extracted from 'Food We Waste', WRAP, May 2008.

 

Download the Handy Hints PDFs for A4 posters or reminders. Find out how to fit more plastic bottles in your recycling box, what types of paper you can recycle, how to cut food and garden waste and more...

 

 

 

• Handy Hints 1(pdf 312 KB) Squash plastic bottles for more space in your recycling box
• You may also be interested in information on items for your Recycling Box.
• What happens to plastic bottles after recycling?
• Recycling Points & Centres.
  
  
  
• Handy Hints 2(pdf 344 KB) What to do if your recycling box is not big enough
• Replacement or additional Recycling Boxes.
  
  
  
• Handy Hints 3(pdf 292 KB) Avoid brown cardboard in paper recycling
• What happens to brown cardboard after recycling?
• Recycling Points & Centres.
  
  
  
• Handy Hints 4(pdf 332 KB) Wash bottles, jars and cans before recycling
• Items for your Recycling Box.
• What happens to glass bottles & jars?
• What happens to your cans?
• Recycling Points & Centres.
  
  
  
• Handy Hints 5(pdf 352 KB) How to recycle broken glass
• What happens to glass bottles & jars?
• Recycling Points & Centres.
  
  
  
• Handy Hints 6(pdf 340 KB) Electrical item recycling
• What happens to electrical appliances?
• Recycling Points & Centres.
  
  
  
• Handy Hints 7(pdf 488 KB) Types of paper you can recycle
• What happens to your paper after recycling it?
• Recycling Points & Centres.
  
  
  
• Handy Hints 8(pdf 656 KB) Types of textiles you can recycle
• What happens to textiles?
• Recycling Points & Centres.
  
  
  
• Handy Hints 9(pdf 512 KB) Types of plastic bottles you can recycle
• What happens to your plastic bottles?
• Recycling Points & Centres.
  
  
  
• Handy Hints 10 (pdf 746 KB) Garden waste
• You may be interested in our composting and garden waste pages.
  
  
  
• Handy Hints 11 (pdf 564 KB) Food waste
• A Green Cone can turn most cooked and uncooked food waste into nourishment for your garden.
• A Home Composter can take some types of uncooked food as well as garden waste to make compost for your garden.
• You may also be interested in the Waste Aware Scotland Love Food Hate Waste campaign.