My Zero Waste Week 2011

Last year I wrote about my efforts to reduce food waste as part of My Zero Waste Week.  This year the theme is about reducing your waste when you’re out and about. It might be that you’re already doing this.  Our high street and local park have bins that for normal waste and recyclable waste.  [...]

Day 1 – My zero waste week challenge

This week I’m trying to reduce my family’s waste, especially food waste as part of Zero Waste Week. For day 1 of the challenge, I’m concentrating on home grown produce. Yesterday we went to our allotment and came back with a heavy load of crops.  Most of the produce was our own, but we’d been [...]

Zero Waste Week

This September the third annual zero waste week will be taking place. The idea is to reduce your waste and whilst getting to zero waste would be absolutely fantastic, obviously any reduction will help.

Your rubbish can save lives!

Passionate recyclers Richard (53), Rachelle (37) and Verona (9) Strauss are celebrating the success of their pioneering recycling scheme to dispose of crisp packets environmentally. They set up a recycling point in their local Tesco store to accept crisp wrappers which currently go to landfill. After three months the Strauss family collected more than 12,000 [...]

Green Blogs Round Up

Here are a round up of some great green blogs that I have been reading and that I think are worth a read, if you have a few spare moments! DIY WinterDreams Energy Saving Gadgets

Recycle Now – Day two

Well, I think I have just about survived the clear out!!  Hubby was annoyed I had thrown away a couple of his “favourite” sleeping shirts, just because they had holes in it!!  I mean this is the man who has nearly 18 tees for sleeping in!! I hastened to remind him you can only wear [...]