Looking for advice on how to reduce waste at home? You’ve come to the right place. Here you’ll find ten money and garbage-saving tips to make your home and lifestyle greener. Take a look and start reducing waste at home today.

1. Use Reusable Bags and Containers

There comes a time in life when your parents stop packing a lunch for you. While being set free is a tough transition, you’ll quickly realize how much packaging is wasted while loading up your goodies. Reusable containers and bags can dramatically cut down on waste in the kitchen. For the greatest benefit, make sure your containers and bags fulfill at least one of the following criterion: recyclable, refillable or reusable.

2. Avoid Individually Wrapped Items

Cheese is great. Individually wrapped cheese is not great. Purchase cheese that isn’t individually wrapped. Use those three short sentences as your mantra on how you should approach shopping as a whole. Let your food run free and not be constrained to individual wrapping. Be cognizant of the kinds of packaging you’re purchasing, making sure to get resealable products if needed.

3. Reduce Unwanted Mail

Reducing waste at home starts and ends in your mailbox. By opting into online billing, you transfer documents from your physical mailbox to your digital mailbox. On top of that, taking a few minutes to opt out of junk mail will save stacks of paper on a weekly basis. We still encourage writing a handwritten letter every now and then.

4. Plan Out Your Meals

Preparation is the key to reducing food waste at home, specifically applies to meal planning. Creating a running list of items you need to buy will help reduce food waste at home and give you a better idea of when you need to go to the store.

5. Buy Items in Bulk

Buying items in bulk shouldn’t be confused with purchasing ten dozen cookies just because they’re on sale. Unnecessary and perishable items shouldn’t be bought in this manner. Instead, purchasing household items like toilet paper and trash bags can save you money and reduce waste at home.

6. Compost Food Scraps

From collecting grass clippings to saving fruit peelings, composting can exist in your life in a variety of settings. By putting in a little extra effort you can reduce the amount of waste you produce and save it from piling up in landfills. Plus, with a little patience, you’ll have the opportunity to use it to maintain a garden or improve the structure of your soil.

7. Go Paperless

While scrolling through Snapchat filters is a whole lot of fun, phones can also be used for real-life tasks. Keeping track of your schedule, jotting down notes and getting tickets to a game can all be accomplished on your phone. Fully utilizing features and apps will reduce paper consumption and keep everything in one place.

8. Borrow and Rent Tools

Liking your neighbors is one thing. Pretending to like them enough to borrow their tools is another. Sharing sparingly used tools between neighbors helps reduce energy and fuel waste at home. This strategy can also help you save space in your shed or garage and allow you to save a significant amount of money.

9. Donate Gently Used Items

You most likely have a pile of gently used clothes at home. Donating these type of items to Goodwill or a local church will help reduce waste at home and do some good in the community. Start digging through your closet.

10. Forget the Clutter

It’s easy to get lost in Target or your favorite department store. You come in for dish detergent and you leave with two pairs of shoes, a new rug and an enormous bag of trail mix, and no detergent. It’s best to limit these kind of events and stick to the plan of buying what you need. You then won’t have to worry about clutter and pitching items you never used.

If you find yourself still drowning in waste at home, and think you need to do a home clean out call us at Waste Solutions 123! We can provide you with a roll off container that can handle all of your excess waste and