It's important to take the time to find out what others in your household think about waste. Now you have your waste warrior identity you can continue your journey by interviewing all your household members to see what they think about the idea of reducing the waste you send to landfill.

Once you have this information it will help you to decide what things you could try to do to reduce the amount of waste your household sends to landfill. It will also let you know who might be best able to help you on your mission to reduce the waste your household sends to landfill.

The next task asks you to interview all the people that live in your house, anyone who is old enough to answer your questions that is!

Have a look at the question sheet below. It will give you some ideas.

So why do we need to go to all this effort to reduce the waste our household sends to landfill?

What is landfill anyway - and why isn't it sustainable?

Landfill is a large hole in the ground where our waste gets put. Waste is anything we have placed in our red topped or general waste bins at home.

Too much waste is going to our landfill sites - that isn't even waste in the first place. Some of things we place in our red bins are not really waste - they can be used again, or composted or repaired. So our landfill sites are filling up very quickly.

Modern landfills are very expensive to make, and you can see the effort that goes into making a landfill in the YouTube clip below 'What is a landfill'.

Landfill also takes up a lot of space. Some landfills are filling up more quickly than expected, and one of the reasons is that we throw away too much. Most waste audits show that lots of the 'waste' we throw into our landfill bins shouldn't even be going to landfill. It isn't really waste - things like food scraps and recyclable products, and also things that can be reused, re-purposed or even repaired.

Another issue with landfills is that they are open at the top so soft plastics can blow away, ending up in our rivers and oceans. Landfills produce methane and leachate - substances that are not good for our air and our soil.

Landfill should be the last resort for our waste - and should only be used for items that cannot be recycled, composted, reused, re-purposed or repaired.

So, if we want to reduce what we are sending to landfill - what else can we do with some of the items?

We can recycle plastic bottles and containers, glass bottles and jars, paper and cardboard, milk and juice containers, aluminum cans and steel cans. By sorting the items we throw away we can save lots of unnecessary things going to landfill.

Some homes have yellow topped bins to place your recyclable items in, these are collected from your kerbside. If you live out of town you may not have access to this council service and may collect your recycling items at home and drop them off at a waste facility or transfer station.

Do you know what items can go in your recycling bin or can be collected at home to recycle?

Do you know what happens to the recycling after it has been picked up from your place, or collected for a waste facility?

Have a look at the clips below to find out more.

One of the ways we can make a huge difference to what we send to landfill is by collecting our food scraps and composting them instead.

Some councils offer a FOGO (Food Organics Garden Organics) service - this is a service that allows people to place all their food scraps into their green topped bin, along with their garden scraps. This FOGO gets taken to a facility that composts all of this material on a large scale.

If you don't have access to FOGO there are still lots of other ways that you can compost your food scraps. The two main ways are by creating a compost heap or purchasing a compost bin, and by making or creating a worm farm. Both of these methods will turn your food scraps into lovely compost for your garden.