Parents across Flintshire are being urged to go green. Waste Awareness Wales is working with Cittaslow Mold to advise parents how they can reduce the impact of their everyday actions on the environment and keep waste to an absolute minimum. Waste Awareness Wales has come up with some tips to help parents reduce the amount of waste they produce.

• In Wales, 200 million disposable nappies are thrown away each year –  that’s 400 every minute – and for every potty trained child, around 5,000 nappies will have been sent to landfill. Using real nappies can be up to half the cost of disposables so it really is worth replacing disposables with real nappies.
• When your children are drawing or colouring, encourage them to use both sides of the paper. Try some alternative arts and crafts using items such as empty washing up bottles and kitchen rolls that would otherwise have been thrown in the bin?
• Donate any unwanted toys to local community groups or charities.
• Don’t waste money buying the latest children’s books which are likely to be read once. Instead, pay a visit to Mold library where you can borrow them free of charge.
• Wherever possible, buy wind up toys to help you reduce the number of batteries you use and have to dispose of.
• Growing your own vegetables can be a fun activity for children and will also help to save you money and unnecessary packing.
• Use your own shopping bags or a ‘bag-for-life’ when visiting the supermarket or use the doorstep delivery service
• Try keeping a waste diary for a week to see exactly what you and your family are throwing away?

To learn more about how you can help future generations by reducing, reusing and recycling your waste please visit www.wasteawarenesswales.org.uk.

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