Reduce Waste

Reduce food waste.

• Project Drawdown: Reduced food waste is ranked #3 on Project Drawdown’s list of the top 100 solutions to global warming.
• EPA: “Reducing Wasted Food At Home”
• Too Good To Go: Food Waste Knowledge Hub

Compost your food waste!  It makes up about ⅓ of your trash. Reduce your carbon emissions from incineration (¾ of a ton per year) by recycling the nutrients in your food waste.

• BlackEarth Compost
• Other composting tips from Lexington’s Environmental Services

Reduce overall consumption: buy less, buy local and enjoy more.  Lexington households generate about ¾ of a ton of carbon emissions from their trash each year.

• The Story of Stuff Project

Use less plastic and learn to recycle the right way.

• Lexington Recycling Guidelines

Learn more about reducing waste and recycling from the Lexington Public School Green Teams