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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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Have you got a great idea about reducing waste?
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Tips and tricks to keep rubbish out of the landfill?
Ideas to make your purchases more eco friendly?
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 [...]
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Loading ...Graph shows weekly weigh-in for grams of kerbside waste since 11th June 2008
we update this weekly.
