Strategic Priority 7: Consumption and Waste

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.