Feel the buzz- how can bees help you reduce waste?

Did you know bees are the world’s best pollinators and that a lot of our food production relies on these little buzzing insects? In Australia every August, thousands of beehives are trucked around Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland to help pollinate almond trees, cherries, blueberries, avocados, apples and more[1]. 

So how can these amazing pollinators help you look after our environment and reduce waste?

The number of urban beekeepers on the Northern Beaches is on the rise, and you can join them. Once your hive is set up and maintained well, there is relatively little work to do. You’ll get your own supply of raw organic honey at home and you’ll no longer be buying mass produced honey in containers that can end up in landfill – that’s a win for you and the environment.

Kimbriki and Sydney Native Bees hold Native Bee workshops covering the different types of native bees, how to care for them, split the hive and collect their delicious honey. If you or family members are allergic to bees, you can safely keep native stingless bee varieties.

Bee keeping isn’t for everyone but that doesn’t mean you can’t find a more sustainable way to enjoy bought honey. Check out the Australian Honey Map for local beekeepers or stores where you can BYO jar to fill up.

Bees not only produce honey, but wonderful beeswax, an incredible natural substance which has a huge array of uses including beeswax wraps.

The wraps are a great reusable alternative to plastic cling wrap - which is used once and thrown away. Use them to wrap your sandwiches, snacks or cover food in the fridge.

Making your own is easy and eco-friendly. Register for one of our upcoming webinars where you will learn how to make the wraps using an oven/frypan method. To try out another method using an iron at home, watch our instructional video.

For other ideas on how to reduce your waste, have a look at our series of Waste Reduction webinars.