Try one great idea and then you can find out the practical use of savings. Get a jar and each time you skip the paper towel purchase, put the savings into the jar. By the year end, go out and spend that money on whatever you want. For the family and for the children. There’s even a better way to do this, ask each member of the household to get a jar and every time someone saves by reusing, put the savings into the jar. And that person gets to keep that money.

2. Make sure bottles and tins are cleaned before putting in the recycling bin. This prevents flies both at home and the recycling place.

3. Reorganize the kitchen so it has an efficient recycling area with good sized containers to help with sorting and holding. This will encourage everyone in the family to remember to recycle.

4. Cut both the tops and the bottoms off metal cans and squash them makes them smaller to fit into the recycling bin.

5. Put a ‘no junk mail’ sticker on your letter box. You’ll be amazed at how much this reduces your junk mails.

6. Spread the word and set an axample in your community. By telling other people and helping them to get started, we increase the savings that can be made. Get your kids involved , if we can educate them early, they will grow up and appreciate waste reduction and will be able to apply these skills in later life.