YOU CAN DO IT! Sort your food waste
...actually, sort all your waste.
Did you know that your sorted food waste is turned into fuel for gas-powered vehicles?
And that just one bag of food waste can equal 4 kilometres of driving?
It's true! And it's so easy to become an everyday environmental hero!
Keep this brown bag under your sink in a bucket,
or better still, in a ventilated bag holder. Put in all your leftover food, including
coffee grounds, eggshells, old flowers, kitchen paper, and other organic waste.
Throw the bag into the brown bin for food waste, if you have a garbage room.
Or put the bag in the food waste hole, if you have garbage containers in the yard.
Even this makes a huge difference.
Then we have other waste which should be sorted and recycled.
Find somewhere in your kitchen where you can keep everything together:
plastic, newspapers, paper packaging, glass, metal, etc.
You may keep dry waste somewhere else in your apartment.
Or maybe you have space for everything under the sink, next to your food waste.
However, when the bags are full, go and throw your valuable garbage out.
Depending on where you live, you'll have to do this differently.
In any case, clear signs will show you what to do.
Look. Here the signs tell me where to put:
Plastic.
Metal.
Paper and cardboard.
Newspapers and printed materials.
Clear glass.
Coloured glass.
There are also bins for lightbulbs, batteries, and small electrical appliances.
There's a separate room for large items like rugs, small furniture, computers and lampshades.
Other places have containers instead.
Two important things: 1) Make sure ONLY food waste goes in the brown bin.
If plastic ends up in there, none of the food waste can be used.
2) Be careful when you throw away your rubbish.
Pick up anything you may have dropped, to prevent rats and odour.
This is for everybody's well-being – your own and your neighbours'.
To sort your rubbish, you need: brown bags, and a bag holder or a bucket.
Regular plastic bags, paper bags, or special recycling bags.
Have fun recycling and making a difference!