Rubbish check-up
Rubbish check-up sheet

Rubbish check-up sheet

This check-up looks at the main areas in your home and what you could do to reduce your rubbish from each area

Simply tick what you currently do with different types of rubbish from each area. Then tick what else you could do to reduce your rubbish, add these up and see how you rate.

Kitchen and dining room

At the moment:

Food scraps	put in the rubbish	composted at home
Plastic packaging	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled
Cardboard boxes	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled
Glass bottles and jars	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled
Tins and cans	put in the rubbish	recycled
Envelopes	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled
Junk mail	put in the rubbish	recycled

I could reduce the rubbish from the kitchen and dining room by:

Composting food scraps
Reusing plastic containers or recycling plastic types 1 and 2
Reusing or recycling cardboard boxes
Reusing or recycling glass bottles and jars
Recycling tins and cans
Reusing or recycling envelopes
Recycling junk mail

Lounge

At the moment:

Newspapers and magazines	put in the rubbish	given away	recycled
Junk mail	put in the rubbish	recycled
Cardboard and paper	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled
Plastic packaging	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled
Glass bottles	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled

I could reduce the rubbish from the lounge by:

Giving away or recycling newspapers and magazines
Recycling junk mail
Reusing or recycling cardboard and paper
Reusing plastic containers or recycling plastic types 1 and 2
Reusing or recycling glass bottles

Bathroom

At the moment:

Plastic packaging	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled
Cardboard boxes	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled
Glass bottles	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled

I could reduce the rubbish from the bathroom by:

Reusing plastic containers or recycling plastic types 1 and 2
Reusing or recycling cardboard boxes
Reusing or recycling glass bottles

Bedroom

At the moment:

Old clothes	put in the rubbish	used as rags	given away
Plastic packaging	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled
Cardboard and paper	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled

I could reduce the rubbish from the bedroom by:

Reusing or giving away old clothing
Reusing plastic containers or recycling plastic types 1 and 2
Reusing or recycling cardboard and paper

Garden

At the moment:

Lawn clippings	put in the rubbish	mulched or composted at home	composted at the landfill
Weeds and hedge clippings	put in the rubbish	mulched or composted at home	composted at the landfill
Plastic packaging	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled
Cardboard boxes	put in the rubbish	reused at home	recycled

I could reduce the rubbish from the garden by:

Mulching or composting my lawn clippings
Mulching or composting by weeds and hedge clippings
Reusing or recycling plastic containers (types 1 and 2)
Reusing or recycling cardboard boxes