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Waste Watchers

Domestic output (formerly known as WASTE) Method of Reduction Reallocation Recycle to Lost from domestic system (GARBAGE/ POLLUTION)

Spoilt food Budget food- preserve food better, eat clippings of vegetables foul, dog, guinea pigs worms, mulch, compost none

Clean paper- used buy less, use black boards, computers(?) reuse as note paper, craft and wrapping paper make new paper, paper mache, sheet mulching, worms or compost. none

Meat products buy less, budget food according to nutritional needs, breed, tend and slaughter your own to ensure health happy animals. dog, worms worms (also cooked bones that dog can't eat) none

Safe Metals Buy only as much as you can reuse. Only buy safe metals produce in a safe way. Consult choice/Greenpeace and others for advice on safe metals. Stainless steel is costly to manufacture and should be recycled. shiny scrap metal for bird deterrents, refashion some metal into ornaments, chimes. Use wire for fencing and ties, Use tins to catch and breed snails, to protect seedlings, blanch plants as they grow (celery). Most steel and alloys decompose. You can bury some metal where you will not dig again e.g. base of hole for tree plantings. It is better for the environment to recycle metals - they are efficient to recycle. some

Plastics DO NOT BUY reuse some plastic wrapping/bags for mini green houses over pots Shred and add to potting mix or to line drainage ditches. Melt slowly and safely to form bricks or pots. Bury plastic beneath trees during planting. Re-use stockings for tying plants. NEARLY ALL

Clothes Buy only organic materials. Buy second hand clothes. Or buy classic comfortable styles and expect to use them until they are no longer comfortable -avoid being on the cutting edge of fashions Give away clothes or sell as second hand clothes to be worn by others rather than made into rags. OR when worn/faded/outmoded, remake in different style or garment, redye, remodel, repair. When worn and ragged, use as cleaners first then as rags, lastly as mulch for the garden. None unless inorganic material such as plastic foil..

Furniture Buy furniture with only organic materials. Buy second hand furniture. As with clothes select classic designs/styles. As with clothes, repaint, re-polish, repair or remodel used furniture. When no longer functional as furniture, Re-use wood and other materials. None.

Sewerage Impossible - excrement is a product from every healthy permaculturalist. Reduce water used for flushing Urine. Install dual flush system - buy this second hand? Build self-contained composting toilet. Use grey water to flush. Diluted Urine and composted sewerage can be used on the garden None

Domestic output (formerly known as WASTE)	Method of Reduction	Reallocation	Recycle to	Lost from domestic system (GARBAGE/ POLLUTION)
Spoilt food	Budget food- preserve food better, eat clippings of vegetables	foul, dog, guinea pigs	worms, mulch, compost	none
Clean paper- used	buy less, use black boards, computers(?)	reuse as note paper, craft and wrapping paper	make new paper, paper mache, sheet mulching, worms or compost.	none
Meat products	buy less, budget food according to nutritional needs, breed, tend and slaughter your own to ensure health happy animals.	dog, worms	worms (also cooked bones that dog can't eat)	none
Safe Metals	Buy only as much as you can reuse. Only buy safe metals produce in a safe way. Consult choice/Greenpeace and others for advice on safe metals. Stainless steel is costly to manufacture and should be recycled.	shiny scrap metal for bird deterrents, refashion some metal into ornaments, chimes. Use wire for fencing and ties, Use tins to catch and breed snails, to protect seedlings, blanch plants as they grow (celery).	Most steel and alloys decompose. You can bury some metal where you will not dig again e.g. base of hole for tree plantings. It is better for the environment to recycle metals - they are efficient to recycle.	some
Plastics	DO NOT BUY	reuse some plastic wrapping/bags for mini green houses over pots	Shred and add to potting mix or to line drainage ditches. Melt slowly and safely to form bricks or pots. Bury plastic beneath trees during planting. Re-use stockings for tying plants.	NEARLY ALL
Clothes	Buy only organic materials. Buy second hand clothes. Or buy classic comfortable styles and expect to use them until they are no longer comfortable -avoid being on the cutting edge of fashions	Give away clothes or sell as second hand clothes to be worn by others rather than made into rags. OR when worn/faded/outmoded, remake in different style or garment, redye, remodel, repair.	When worn and ragged, use as cleaners first then as rags, lastly as mulch for the garden.	None unless inorganic material such as plastic foil..
Furniture	Buy furniture with only organic materials. Buy second hand furniture. As with clothes select classic designs/styles.	As with clothes, repaint, re-polish, repair or remodel used furniture.	When no longer functional as furniture, Re-use wood and other materials.	None.
Sewerage	Impossible - excrement is a product from every healthy permaculturalist.	Reduce water used for flushing Urine. Install dual flush system - buy this second hand? Build self-contained composting toilet. Use grey water to flush.	Diluted Urine and composted sewerage can be used on the garden	None