Zero Waste – less waste from the kitchen with a few smart choices.
With a few simple switches, you can easily reduce the amount of waste that ends up in the trash can. Here are tips on how to make a few smart swaps that can be really profitable both for you financially and for the environment.
Do you pay per kg for your waste? Many do, and with these small "sacrifices" you can quickly see the result in the form of a lower cost for waste management.
Think how fantastic it is that we as private individuals can make a few small simple switches and make such a big difference.
Here are our 7 tips on things to swap
- Swap plastic bags for – Reused bag. Get a sturdy tote bag made from recycled material for all shopping. A newly produced tote bag takes quite a while to "earn back" environmentally, but it's a completely different matter when you buy a bag made from 100% recycled material.
- Plastic wrap – Swap for beeswax wraps. Plastic wrap does not account for a large part of the weight of the waste, but if you look at it over a year, a lot of plastic wrap is consumed, and plastic wrap is truly a disposable item. Get a couple of beeswax wraps in different sizes and you will notice that you save a lot.
- Swap dishcloth for a variant you can wash. A dishcloth in Swedish-grown linen that is also Swedish-produced is a good environmental choice. The cloth can be washed almost indefinitely and it is actually locally grown / locally produced and that is always a good environmental choice.
- Swap the lunch box for a stainless steel or glass variant. Here you save a lot of waste. Imagine a stack of five lunch boxes on top of each other and then you take that stack times 48 working weeks …. oh oh… here you have a lot of plastic to save on.
- Tea bags – swap for a stainless-steel tea ball. This may seem like a small detail, but wow, how much it adds up to over a whole year. Swap your tea bags for organic loose-leaf tea and a stainless-steel tea ball and another saving is made.
- Swap coffee filters for a metal filter. Here you have weight to save – coffee grounds are heavy, and if you do not have the option to compost, this is a "big villain" in the trash can.
- Join a REKO ring. Do a search in your Facebook app. Find a local REKO ring and start shopping directly from your local farmers. The cities actually often have the opportunity for this, and you know what – this is absolutely superb! You order on Facebook, meet up (REKO rings have designated delivery locations and days/times), pay (often via Swish) and get your locally produced raw ingredients and we can promise they are good for the environment, plus they are rarely packaged in lots of plastic AND when you have bought goods in a REKO ring, you tend to handle them better and reduce food waste.