Strategic Priority 7: Consumption and Waste

Recycling

Strategic Priority 7: Consumption and Waste

Reuse shopping bags

Save 3g of carbon per plastic bag.

Recycle whatever you can

The average bin contains 590g of carbon.  
The average Briton sends 220kg of carbon to landfill each year. 
To find out what goes in your recycling bins please visit: What goes in your bins - Sunderland City Council
Find out where to recycle things that can't go in your recycling bin here.

Pallion Household Recycling and Waste Centre

The new site helps increase the amount of household waste recycled, reduces congestion and is more user friendly for residents.
St Vincent de Paul Society charity has a new, purpose-built re-use shop (Revive Sunderland) located on the Pallion HWRC site. The shop is open 7 days a week from 9.30am to 4.30pm each day. You can donate items that are in a condition that is good enough for them to be sold.

Grow your own fruit and vegetables 

A lettuce grown in the UK produces 0.6kg of carbon compared to 1.8kg of carbon for lettuce imported from Spain (per kg of produce).

Buy local where possible

A typical meal bought from a conventional supermarket chain uses 4 to 17 times more petroleum for transport than the same meal using local ingredients.

Use the Refill app

Refill provides a platform to connect residents and their communities to places they can eat, drink and shop without single-use plastic packaging.
To see where the stations are located download the Refill app.

OLIO

OLIO connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. This could be food nearing its sell-by date in local stores, spare home-grown vegetables, bread from your baker, or the groceries in your fridge when you go away. OLIO can also be used for non-food household items too.
To start reducing food waste download the app.