Eco My Flat
Canterbury students are commited to recycling with their Eco My Flat Competition. Bin Inn is proud to assist with providing Bin Inn gift vouchers for lucky students in the Eco My Flat Competition. The eco-my-flat competition is a programme to help students green up their flat with easy, low-cost living tips. It’s also a battle for great prizes!

Refill, Reuse & Recycling Made Easy At Bin Inn
Have you ever thought about how many perfectly good containers we throw out each week? This packaging waste not only costs us money, but it also costs the environment.

The great thing about Bin Inn is that products are available from self selection bins and barrels - this means you can buy as much or as little as you need and best of all you pay for the product and not the fancy packaging. Whether you need five litres of bleach for cleaning concrete paths or just 100ml of dishwasher rinse aid - you only need to buy enough to get the job done! Bring in your empty bottles to refill so that you can save money and also save on packaging waste.

Environmentally it makes sense to reuse bottles and containers where possible, as more and more containers end up in landfills. Simply take your empty containers to Bin Inn and refill them with that particular product from the self selection bin. It is best to use the same bottle to refill the same product as cleaning chemicals should not be mixed. Another good reason to do this is so that the cleaning products are always labeled correctly - no chance of any mishaps. If you have forgotten to bring your empty containers with you, no problems - Bin Inn stocks refill containers, these can be purchased for a small cost, labeled, filled and used again and again.

Refilling is easy and fun! The convenient bulk barrels have easy pour taps. Measuring jugs and funnels are also available for those awkward neck bottles. For those of you who are not used to refilling your own bottles, simply ask one of the friendly Bin Inn staff to help you out.

Rubbish Free Year Challenge Proudly Sponsored by Bin Inn
Bin Inn sponsored Matthew Luxon and Waveney Warth on their Rubbish Free Year Challenge in 2008. Matthew & Waveney's challenge was to create no more than ONE council rubbish bag for the year from the 1st of February 2008 to the 1st of February 2009. The Rubbish Free Year Challenge is a fantastic project for Bin Inn to sponsor because Bin Inn is all about paying for product not packaging. The Rubbish Free Year Challenge is a great way of raising awareness about recycling and Bin Inn encourages shoppers to also cut down on their household rubbish. If we all play our part and try and reduce the number of rubbish bags we put out at our kerbside each week then it will all add up so that together we reduce landfill rubbish.

www.rubbishfreeyear.co.nz
Follow Matthew & Waveney's helpful advice and you too can cut down on the amount of rubbish that your household creates. Here are some basic ways to cut down on packaging at Bin Inn:

• Bring your empty bottles with you and refill from Bin Inn's barrels
• Bring your empty containers with you and refill from Bin Inn's self selection barrels
• When shopping buy those products with minimal packaging or preferably no packaging such as from Bin Inn's self selection bins and barrels
• Just look in your pantry and rubbish bin to see the amount of product packaging for groceries. Check out your Bin Inn store to see if other alternatives are available
• Bring recyclable shopping bags to Bin Inn rather than using plastic bags
  
• Use kerbside recycling (if available in your area) for any unwanted plastic bottles and containers - check which grade of plastic these are first or if not sure check with your local council
• Buy concentrated formulations such as concentrated laundry liquid.