Lots of people enjoy indulging in chocolate eggs at Easter but the huge amount of packaging they are often wrapped in can be a real headache.

Luckily, there are plenty of ways that you can enjoy Easter without creating lots of extra waste for our landfill sites, just follow some of our tips to have lots of fun, reduce waste and even save money this Easter.

You can have lots of fun (as well as saving money and reducing waste) by making and decorating your own Easter eggs with a chocolate egg making kit. These kits can be bought in the shops and used year after year to make fantastic eggs with melted chocolate. You could even try using the egg-shaped plastic packaging that comes with many Easter eggs as a mould for more eggs!

If you do buy Easter eggs this year, try to choose ones with as little packaging as possible. Over-packaged products tend to be more expensive and you will be left with more waste afterwards. The money you save by avoiding excess packaging could be spent on more chocolate!

Remember that you can recycle cardboard packaging at your nearest recycling centre or put it in your home compost bin. Plastic packaging can be recycled at some plastic recycling banks (not those that only accept bottles). Metal foil can also be recycled at some recycling centres or can be saved for use in craft projects.

If you decorate any real eggs this Easter, you can add the eggshells to your home compost bin when you finish with them. This adds minerals to your compost and helps your garden bloom! Visit our home composting pages to find out how to order a discounted home compost bin.