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Follow our progress in the zero waste challenge. The good, the bad and the downright rotten (usually back of the fridge) stories. We blog our daily events, tips and experiences to show that reducing your household waste is possible, it saves you money and helps to protect the environment.

All about My Zero Waste

The Green Family We welcome new readers to our site. Whenever I visit a new website I want to know all about the people behind the words and about the idea behind the site. Here are some FAQs about us. Feel free to add yours in the comments below and we’ll answer them here! Who are you? We are a family of four living in semi rural England. Our family comprises... 

Welcome to My Zero Waste first post!

Welcome to our first blog post on My Zero Waste. If you’ve read some of our pages, you’ll see that we are a family of four (2 adults, 1 seven year old and an elderly cat), who have set ourselves the challenge of reducing our weekly rubbish. We’re launching this site in conjunction with the WRAP’s (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Recycle... 

Monthly challenge for June

Monthly challenge for June For the first month, we’re going to ease you gently into the idea of reducing your rubbish and the amount of waste you send to landfill each week. We’re nice like that. This month we’re setting you the challenge of becoming aware of the recycling facilities that are available in your area.  Read More →

WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags

by Karen Kawawada at The Record. May 22 2008. Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true. After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the animals that eat them. Now... 

Supermarkets failing to reduce packaging

by Karen McVeigh, The Guardian, Thursday May 29, 2008. Supermarkets are falling behind local high street retailers and markets in reducing packaging waste, a survey has found. Up to 38% of food packaging in a typical supermarket shopping basket cannot be recycled, according to a report by the Local Government Association. Its second investigation into the problem... 

June’s Dustbin Demon

Ladies and Gentlemen. We present to you this month’s Dustbin Demon: The plastic cork! Hands up who has noticed that more and more bottles of wine contain a plastic cork? Prior to our zero waste challenge, these corks have gone in the bin without note. They’re only tiny, they weigh next to nothing, no big deal, right?  Read More →