These five lifestyle tweaks can reduce your waste and help save the planet — plus play to win £50k on the Sun Savers Raffle
DO you feel like you are always wasting money?
Each person in the UK throws away five times their own body weight in rubbish per year, which is bad news for the environment.
To mark the start of , here are some tiny tweaks that can make a difference:
Repack it: The average shopper uses approximately 13,000 plastic bags over their lifetime. With the introduction of the 10p charge, that is £1,300 wasted.
Instead, take your own shopping tubs, boxes or crates that fit in your boot.
Transfer shopping from the till to the tubs in the trolley and load into your car. It is also super easy to carry them into the house this way.
Save: More than £1,000 over your lifetime
Reuse it: As a nation, we spend loads on wipes and kitchen roll — another example of how we are throwing money away.
Buy two rolls of Plenty kitchen roll for £2.50 at Asda when you do your big shop. Or you pick up a two-pack of microfibre cloths for just 85p.
Save: £2.50 every time you shop
Repost it: There is no need to buy envelopes or parcel wrap.
Instead, open post carefully and re-address and reuse when you need it. A4 padded envelopes cost around £1.50 a time. Use six a year and that is £9. Re-use and it is free.
Save: £1.50 a time on padded envelopes
Recharge it: A pack of four AA batteries costs around £4 per pack. But you can pick up rechargeable versions for around £8 a pack on eBay.
If you use one pack a month, the normal batteries will cost you £16 over four months. In four months, you will earn back the money you spent on rechargeable ones.
Save: up to £4 per month
Retire it: The less food you throw away and more recycling you do, the fewer bin bags you will need.
Supermarket own-brand versions cost around £2 a roll for 20, making them 10p a bag. Use two bags less a week and that saves you 80p a month.
Save: £9.60 per year
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Save: £14.01
Cheap treat
PRINGLES are half-price at Tesco. Get your favourite flavour for £1.25, was £2.50.
Save: £1.25
My Sun Savers fiver
ERIC Mackintosh from Braintree, Essex says: “I use my Sun Savers fivers towards the cost of my mobile so I can keep in touch with my six grandchildren.”
- Send us your Savers fiver stories to and get 28 codes worth £5 if we print yours. Include your name and town.
Top swap
SWAP IKEA’s wooden mirror, above, for the similar-looking Dunelm version, below.
Save: £40
Shop and save
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Save: £10
Reader's saving tip
JANET Rogers from Hornchurch, Essex says: “Sprinkle carpets occasionally with a little lavender oil. It keeps moths away and makes the room smell lovely.”
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Play now to win £50,000 on the Sun Savers Raffle
JOIN thousands of readers taking part in the new Sun Savers Raffle.
Every Sun Savers code you enter will earn you a ticket for our £50k monthly Raffle. And for every ten tickets you collect in a calendar month, you get a GOLDEN TICKET for our £80k Raffle, which takes place every three months, with the first one at the end of June.
There is no limit to how many tickets you can collect. So the more you enter, the better your chances.
To take part go to or open the Sun Savers app. Then opt in to each month’s Raffle by clicking “Yes!” when prompted and start collecting the Sun Savers codes printed daily in the paper.
Every time you scan or enter a code into Sun Savers, you get a Raffle ticket in the £50k Raffle.
Not yet a Sun Savers member? Just go to or find “Sun Savers” in the app store to get started.
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For every 28 codes you enter, we will give you a fiver. So over the course of a year, that could add up to £65.
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