If you are doing an excavation and building project, you will likely need to hire a skip for packaging materials, unused supplies, excavation materials and more. However, if you want to find innovative ways to reduce the rubbish you put in your skip, there are multiple things you need to keep in mind. These five things can help:

1. Blockmaker

If you plan to do any demolition on your project, you may want to consider hiring a block maker. This innovative machine takes excavation materials from your work site, such as dirt, rocks and such. Then, it converts those materials into blocks you can use while building. In addition to keeping excavation materials out of your skip, this item turns them into something useful.

2. Tree charity

If you are removing any trees from your land to build your home, you want to find a tree charity. These organisations are focused on saving the seeds of indigenous Australian trees and promoting revegetation as much a possible. Although they don't necessarily specialise in rehoming unneeded trees, organisations such as Trees for Life may be able to help you find a home for any trees or bushes you remove as you prepare your building site. That keeps these valuable plants alive and out of your skip.

3. Reuseable containers

Just as using reusable spice jars at the co-op reduces waste, so too does using reusable containers for your building materials. So that you don't fill up the skip with packaging materials, consider contacting each of your vendors and asking if they can bring the materials in reusable containers. Ideally, they should be able to pick up the containers when you are done with them, or they should have a spot where you can drop them off.

4. A shipping container or portable storage shed

In some cases, when working on a building and excavation project, you may even end up throwing building supplies in your skip. In particular, this happens when the weather attacks your supplies before you get the chance to use them. To prevent this situation, you want to have a storage spot for your supplies, and a shipping container or a portable shed can both work perfectly.

5. Social media page

Finally, a social media page may also help to reduce the amount of rubbish you produce during your project. In particular, you can use your social media account to broadcast when you have free stuff to give away. If your fans or followers see the post, they can share it with their friends, and that all increases the chances that the stuff you aren't using will be picked up to be used by someone else rather than thrown in the rubbish.