Recycling plants deal with tonnes of material per hour ♻️ The workers at the plant are dealing with all sorts of contamination from people's poor recycling habits, there’s no way we can expect them to remove lids as well! Simple things we can do at home make a huge difference for the amount that gets recycled at the plant. We got this! #recycling #LifeHack #Sustainability #waste | Waste-Ed With Kate

Composting 101! Everything you need to know to get started making your own compost. Greens (energy): fresh grass clippings, dairy/chicken/rabbit manure, fruit and vegetable scraps, garden trimmings, coffee grounds, bedding from plant eating animals. Browns (bulking): wood chips, sawdust, hay, straw, corn stalks, cardboard, shredded paper. Balanced: deciduous leaves, horse manure with bedding, ground up tree and shrub trimmings, legume hay Avoid composting these: meat products, animal droppings f

New to composting? I have you covered. In this video, we covered hot composting, a really common method, but there are many other ways to successfully compost. Composting consists of broken down organic materials. It can act as a soil amendment, slow feed for you plants, or even a mulch. Most of what we compost will fall into three categories:Browns (carbon rich): newspaper, wood chips, sawdust, straw, cornstalks, cardboard Greens (nitrogen rich): grass clippings, fresh manure, fruit and vegetab