Easter

Waste less this Easter! 

With lots of chocolatey treats and delicious food Easter can bring more than its fair share of rubbish. In the UK another 8,000 tonnes of waste is created from Easter packaging and cards! 

Have a look at our Eggscellent tips below to inspire you to reduce waste this Easter! 

Easter eggs and chocolate 

Easter Eggs might be tasty but they produce a lot of waste!

• If you can, choose Easter eggs that come in less packaging or better still, buy a large bar of chocolate instead of an egg - more chocolate and less waste! 
• If you do buy an egg, choose ones with recyclable packaging - the cardboard box, plastic trays and foil can all go into your home recycling bin. 
• Easter egg foil - many eggs come wrapped in coloured foil, which can be recycled in your household recycling bin. Just remember to collect up all the foil into a tennis-sized ball along with any other bits of used foil (including from smaller eggs) and pop it into your home recycling bin for collection.

Re-use decorations and costumes 

• Before heading to the shops for Easter decorations, have a look at what you've already got - re-using what we own is the best thing we can do! 
• If you do want a new look - hunt in charity shops, car-boot sales and on online marketplaces like Facebook and Vinted for pre-loved items. 
• Think differently - do you need to buy an Easter basket or can you make one out of something you already own? 

Do it Yourself

Keep waste to a minimum by making your own

• Easter cards
• Chocolate eggs
• Easter biscuits
• Homemade decorations (including dyeing eggs) using recycled materials!

Remember to recycle any cards and envelopes you receive (no glitter or foil bits please). 

Easter food

As we get together with friends and family at this time of year, we can end up buying more food than we need. Over 8,000 tonnes of food is expected to be wasted in Britain over the Easter weekend, including an estimated 6.8 million hot cross buns!

Before you head to the shops, plan your meals and shopping list so you don’t get tempted - when you get home make sure you store your items correctly - then simply freeze or use up your leftovers! There are lots of recipes and recipes on our Food Savvy website – yum!

Store your hot cross buns in the freezer to stop them being wasted or try this recipe for a delicious hot cross bun bread and butter pudding to use up any surplus.

Flowers

If you've gone daft over daffodils, remember you can put all your fading blooms in your home compost bin. If you’ve made an Easter tree table centrepiece, pop branches and twigs in your garden waste collection if you have one, or chop up twigs into smaller pieces if placing in your home compost bin, so they will break down more easily. Don’t forget to remove any decorations to save for next year!

Happy Easter!