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Reducing your waste

We can all reduce our waste by reusing things, buying less, repairing rather than replacing and refusing single-use products.

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Create less waste

There are many things that you can do every day to avoid creating waste:

  • Bring your own water bottle or coffee cup
  • Take a shopping bag
  • Refuse drinking straws 
  • Use a lunch box (and no cling wrap)
  • Ask for takeaway food in a reusable containers
  • Put a ‘no advertising’ sticker on your letter box (free at our offices)
  • Opt for email communications instead of paper letters

Help us save on the financial cost and environmental impact of sending waste to landfill.

Sort it into the right bin or drop it at collection points and transfer stations.

Avoid plastics - choose an alternative

The less plastic in your life, the better for you, your family and the environment. Use our list of more sustainable swaps for everyday plastic items.

Avoid plastics

Reduce the amount of plastic in your daily life. Use our list to swap everyday plastic items for a more sustainable choice.

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Remember to recycle

Many common household items can be recycled. Recycling reduces the amount of waste we send to landfill, and reuses salvaged materials instead of raw materials to create new products.
 

Recycling bin

Find out what does and what doesn’t go into your recycling bin. Sort, rinse, put in the bin loose (no plastic bags). Help us avoid contaminating loads.

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Sign up for the Green Caffeen program

This reusable coffee cup system came to Bendigo in 2021 and kept 20,159 disposable cups (or 203 general waste bins of cups) out of landfill in the first year. Cafes can sign up to participate by contacting:

[email protected]

Find out more about Green Caffeen

Switch to cloth nappies

Modern cloth nappies are easy to use, more cost effective than disposable, better for the environment and come in a range of colours and patterns.

Reusable cloth nappies

We can help you switch to cloth nappies, including free nappy packs and how-to use them workshops. Save money, reduce disposables going to landfill, save the planet.

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Try reusable sanitary products

Reusable sanitary products are easy to use and clean, cost effective and reduce the amount of waste that each individual sends to landfill.

Reusable sanitary products

Try reusable sanitary products to save money and reduce the millions of sanitary items that go to landfill. The change might seem daunting, but they are easy to use and clean.

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Reduce your food waste

Too much food ends up as waste. To reduce food that ends up in your bins, avoid impulse buying and plan your meals. Write a list and check what is already in the pantry and fridge before food shopping. Freeze leftovers, use them to cook new meals or take them for lunch the following day.

Use your organics bin

We collect food and garden waste to divert it from landfill and compost it. All food and most garden material can go in your organics bin, even meat and bones.

Organics bin

Find out what goes in your Organics bin, order extra caddy liners, what happens next. Keeping food and garden waste collection out of landfill to make compost.

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