Pizza boxes, milk packets, eggshells, vegetable peels and what not.

The dustbin in our kitchen gets filled with a lot of junk everyday. We tend to use single bin for all the waste and then dump it as it is which leaves no scope of recycling of waste.

A load of waste reaches landfills everyday and air and water pollution is increasing dayby day because of the way we dispose the waste. To reduce the effect on environment, we must start practicing- recycling and composting.

To do so, we need to start with the basics, that is, waste segregation.

Waste segregation means dumping dry and wet wastes separately, the aim is to recycle the dry waste and to utilize the wet waste as compost.

This is now you know and today, we have come with some tips to help you segregate waste at home.

1. Dry and wet waste

Keep separate containers for dry recyclable, dry non recyclable and wet waste in the kitchen. The wet waste such as vegtable and fruit peels can be used as compost whereas dry recyclable waste such as newspapers and plastic bottles can be recycled. If segregation of dry waste is done properly, then it can even help you fetch some money from local scrap dealers.

2. Sanitary waste

Diapers, synthetic sanitary napkins, condoms, soiled napkins comes under the category of sanitary waste. This waste has to be incinerated but since this facility is not available at our homes, we must pack this kind of waste in newspapers and then dispose them off.

3. E waste

Collect E waste such as fridge, tubelights, bulbs, mobile phones, etc in a container and then there are many collection facilities and recycling centres that trade your electronic waste.

4. Reduce and reuse

Reduce the waste generation in your home by simple tips such as by using cloth bags instead of plastic, by reducing the paper usage, etc.

Reuse also proved to be very effective such as rinse glass or plastic containers and reuse them to store food items, rather than throwing your old belongings try and donate them.

Well now you must be thinking how to do composting, well that's a topic for next now you know.