Sort your waste – and compress containers

Think carefully about what can be used again and what can be sorted for recycling instead of throwing everything in the garbage can.

Today we are used to throwing our garbage in the garbage can and forget all about it. At the same time we buy more and more things and food products all wrapped carefully often in several layers. The waste just does not disappear but constitutes a space consuming and environmental problem of great magnitude.

Purchasing durable, long-lasting goods is the best way to reduce your waste and protect the environment, but also reusing items, repairing them, donating them to charity or selling them also reduces waste. In fact, reusing products when possible is even better than recycling because the item does not need to be reprocessed before it can be used again.

Compressing containers before throwing them into the dust bin, is another efficient way of improving sustainability. Less waste demands less transport, thus less use of energy.