Narrow frames: how to sort waste in a small kitchen
More and more people are joining the culture of separate waste collection. But sometimes circumstances in the form of a small apartment or just a tiny kitchen can from the very beginning discourage the desire to collect recyclables at home. But you can always find a way out: City + found 6 ways to conveniently place waste paper, glass and plastic on one square meter.
1. DETACH PACKAGING
Often, bulk packaging from under the juice, wafer cake or lemonade can be reduced several times - that is, flatten.
For tetra-pack there is even a special instruction on how to make a flat package from a “brick”. You just need to bend the "ears" and release the air out of the box. Now, in place of a single juice bag, you can place about three such packages.
2. REMEMBER PRO BALCONY
If you cannot get recycled every month to stocks or to points of reception, and it accumulates a lot, you can move packages with separately collected waste to the balcony. Dream up over the design of cisterns or ordinary boxes, and they will occupy a worthy place on the balcony.
3. SHARE THE WASTE BY TWO TANKS
It is not necessary to start containers for each type of waste. Sometimes it is enough just to separate recyclable and non-recyclable garbage. For this, for example, fit two small rectangular cisterns. Also, recycled materials can be folded in a large paper bag or plastic bag " big - bag ".
4. WORK WALLS
Packaging tetra-pack and plastic is light enough so that you can store them directly on the wall. Hang a small container in the kitchen or in the room, and it can be a harmonious addition to your interior.
5. SORT TOGETHER WITH NEIGHBORS
In some houses several apartments unite a common corridor, which is separated from other apartments on the floor by a door. Usually, in such corridors there are bicycles and carriages, but there it is possible to place neat cisterns for separately collected waste. Clean packaging will not have an unpleasant smell, so this should not cause inconvenience to neighbors. It is possible that they will happily start putting their waste paper and plastic bottles in your tanks.
6. DO NOT BUY GARBAGE
The simplest, but at the same time the most difficult solution to a garbage problem is reducing consumption. Try to buy only what you really need. It is worth paying attention to the packaging: sometimes the product can be wrapped in several layers of paper and plastic. Think about how much interest in the purchased product is a useful product, and how much - its packaging. Choose goods that can be folded into your container.
The container for storing waste may be an unnecessary box, an empty box in a cupboard in the kitchen or just a regular bag. It all depends on your imagination and desire to join the culture of separate collection. Several of our readers who have experience in the separation of household waste in small apartments shared their ideas with the City +.
YULIA NIKOLAEVA
CURBSTONE UNDER REFRIGERATOR
Last spring, Julia and Dmitry began experiments with separate waste collection and immediately ran into the problem of garbage in the kitchen. Everywhere it all interfered, it was uncomfortable. Then Dmitry - a furniture maker by profession - invented and made a cabinet for a refrigerator for storing recyclables. He designed it taking into account the load, strengthened the walls, put metal legs. Since the refrigerator has an average height, you can still reach the upper shelves without a stool. The invention turned out to be so convenient that now Dmitry makes such pedestals to order.
Darya Kosheleva
POSTAGE BOX
Daria experimented with separate waste collection for two months with her neighbors. They installed a branded large box of the Post of Russia under the sink and stored secondary raw materials in it. At a certain point, Daria realized that the box was taking up too much space in the kitchen and transformed it into a more convenient “system” for collecting recyclables.
OLGA TSELIKOVA
TWO PACKAGES
Olga's kitchen has a size of 4.5 m 2 : there, rather, you are thinking about how to be placed yourself in a modest area, a couple of waste bins are out of the question. But Olga found a convenient option for herself: she hung two bags on the back of the chair: one for the paper, the second - a “package of bags”. Another trash, says Olga, is practically not formed.
“ By and large, there is generally no plastic. I do not buy anything in it. Only if, for example, bought a flash drive, of course, it is in the package. But this is an isolated case and a rarity. As for regular purchases (products), I do not buy anything either in plastic, or in tetra-packs, or in doy-packs, or in cans, or in glass. Groats in bags, vegetables in bulk. I buy sour cream in half-liter cups, they all go afterwards as pots for planting.
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