Here is a very smart tips from a friend of my mother's. Source photo © La Fée Crochette Yoghurt is a product widely consumed in France, and sold in individual pots. Instead of just throwing them out after use (those small pots are not reclycled in France), she keeps them in a separate bag and when she has a certain number, she piles them up and then throw them away. By doing so, she saves space and uses fewer waste bags; it's important because in France, or at least where she lives, you have to pay extra taxes above a certain number of bags per month. Even if we don't pay extra taxes here and we can recycle yoghurt pots, it still has a great ecological interest: you can transport more yoghurt waste this way - fewer trucks are needed -, and then save petrol and carbon emissions. It's especially important since plastic collected in blue bags in Tromsø is send to Germany to be recycled ( more info here ). Think about it! *** F...
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