Nursery World - Sustainable tips: Maximise your organisation when it comes to disposing of waste

Cheryl Hadland, chair of the sustainability charity GECCO and founder of Tops Day Nurseries, shares tips to help nurseries reduce their waste

At your setting you should have several bins for different types of waste:

General waste

This is anything that doesn’t go in the other bins. It costs more to have this bin collected, and if it is overweight you can be charged extra. So to reduce your costs too, consider how to reduce what goes in this bin and change collection to fortnightly. Food packaging is a huge source of waste.

Food waste

Reduce food waste with appropriate portion sizes and offer any leftovers for seconds to colleagues and even parents. Tweak the menu/recipes if items are unpopular. Any remaining food waste should go into composting (or wormeries!), or to a food waste bin for collection.

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