Hi, it's Casey here from Student Job
Search. I'm a recent environmental
studies grad and I'm here presenting
a new video series on waste
reduction, to help you do your bit
to reduce, reuse and recycle
your waste.
Keeping it out of landfill.
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Welcome to our second video on
smarter waste management.
You've already been reducing your
waste after our first video, right?
Let's look at the second way we can
cut our landfill footprint down.
In this video, I'm looking at the
great ways you can reuse some of
that one use waste that you can get
stuck with.
With a bit of imagination, this is
the second tool in our arsenal to
keep junk out of landfill.
First up, refills, refills,
refills.
There are plenty of items around the
home that you can refill rather than
buy new.
Not only are refills often packaged
more sustainably like tin cans
or biodegradable packaging, they're
more often than not cheap as well.
So let's check out some everyday
examples.
So, you like the easy squeezy
bottles for T-Sauce?
No problem.
Just make sure you buy the canned
refills when you're out, they'll
save you money.
Plus, tin cans can be recycled,
cheaper and easier than plastic.
In fact, according to Recycle.co.nz,
cans can be recycled forever.
That means like a really long
time.
Not only that, but recycling takes
only five percent of the energy and
CO2 than making them in the first
place.
We will of course recycle these
cans, but even if they went
to landfill, they can break down in
only 50 years.
Unlike plastic bottles that can take
up to 500,
egh. So, refills are a win
win. But what else can we refill
I hear you ask?
How about plastic bottles.
Just refill it and you're ready to
go every day.
Or there's washing up
liquid Hand soaps,
body wash, laundry detergent,
shampoo, printer ink, cooking oils,
coffee, lighter fluid,
huh! You get my point.
There are plenty of brands that now
offer user friendly packaging
or if not, at least offer
environmentally friendly refill
packets.
Keep an eye out for them at your
local supermarket.
All right. That's enough on refills.
Let's get crafty.
Another sweet way to reduce your
landfill footprint is reusing
your waste for crafts - to make
something!
You'll be amazed at some of the
Pinterest really stuff that you can
make for almost nothing when we get
a little bit creative.
So here goes.
There's just something about candles
that add to the atmosphere.
Old jam jars can make great candles.
All you need to do is get yourself a
block of beeswax from the craft
store or online, some wick and
something to decorate it with.
Then you have all you need to turn
your neon lit house into a relaxing
sanctuary.
Of course, there's other uses for
glass jars.
Fill them with coloured sand for
decorative pieces around the home.
Pop cuttings in them before you
plant them in the garden.
And if you're a bit handy, they're
really good for storing nuts and
bolts.
And there's even something to
impress Santa as well.
I find Pinterest a goldmine of ideas
of how to reuse stuff around the
home from glass jars from what we
just talked about, to a cardboard,
cloth, plastic, you name it.
Check it out for inspiration.
Here's a great tip for parents out
there. One parents trash is another
kid's treasure or something like
that.
For green thumbed kids set aside
food scraps and use them to grow
food.
Old egg cartons or yoghurt pots
make great little indoor gardens to
grow spring onions in or
cut off the top of the carrot and
plant them in the egg carton. Powered
by food scraps they'll shoot up
for your child's amazement.
Other cleaned up household trash can
be great for young kids to collect
up items like tissue boxes,
empty loo rolls or yoghurt
containers and keep them aside in a
build box.
To us, this is junk.
But to a child with a bit of glue,
it could be a rocket ship.
You'll be amazed at what they might
make out of nothing.
And not to mention keeping them
entertained for hours.
Yes.
So that's us all done with
today's video.
I hope you've got some great tips on
how to turn your trash into treasure
with a dash of imagination.
It's the second way that you can
keep your footprint down by
reducing, reusing and recycling.
Remember, over time these changes
really stack up.
For me, in a month, it looks like
all of this that
I can give a second life.
Imagine what you could do.
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Next time we'll get to the nitty
gritty of how you can make sure that
your recycling is actually recycled.
You'll be surprised how much
actually goes into landfill.
But don't you worry, we'll give you
the tools to put a halt to that
nasty business.
Ka Kite for now.