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Forgive us readers, for we have sinned.
Here’s our second confessional and what a biggie it is too.
Last week, we tripped off to Devon for a few days of sunshine, sand dunes and salty air. We were self catering and were positioned a mile from a rather delicious Waitrose.
Being supermarket snobs, we were kind of in [...]
Well, we skived off to Devon for a jolly old shindig and most of you didn’t even realise. Such is the power of modern technology. You can pop off for a jaunt around the country and the blog fairies take care of post dating your thoughts while you’re away.
Shame they don’t do the housework as [...]
Guess what, guess what, guess what?!
LOOK!
Our weekly weigh in number three amounted to super middleweight status at a piffling 484gms!
That means we have practically HALVED the amount of rubbish we send to landfill in two short weeks.
Yee haa and hurrah, bravo and encore and all sorts of other fun exclamations.
To be honest, I’m not quite [...]
Since beginning our zero waste challenge, we’ve been left with a bag of plastic each week to put out for the landfill. Everything else can be recycled or reused.
I realised that around a third of that landfill waste over the past couple of weeks has been yogurt pots! We get through one large [...]
Yesterday I promised I would talk about some people who are doing their bit to reduce the amount of rubbish they send to landfill.
There are two people in our village for example, who put out virtually nothing for the rubbish collection each week. They don’t write a website about it, talk about it or write [...]
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Loading ...Graph shows weekly weigh-in for grams of kerbside waste since 11th June 2008
we update this weekly.
