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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.

Zero waste week planned for Gloucestershire!

We spent an insightful 2 hours yesterday afternoon chatting merrily and laughing heartily (and being very serious and staying on topic of course) with two colleagues from the Gloucestershire County council waste team. Kim and Simon sat on our sofa drinking tea while we put the world to rights (and I figured out how to dispose of the foil backed tea bag wrapper that... 

Weekly weigh in number seven

Oh Dear what can the matter be? Dear dear what can the matter be? Oh dear what can the matter be? Our weigh in’s a total nightmare. Our graph is going to be doing an acute rise this week due to a thorough clearing out of my kitchen cupboards a couple of days ago. Why is it that we put away so many empty packets? Are we still optimists from our childhood believing... 

It’s official; Mr Green from My Zero waste is hot stuff

I always new Mr Green was hot. In fact, those were the exact thoughts that went through my mind the first time I laid eyes on him some ten-and-a-bit years ago. And in case you’re wondering, yep, those same thoughts go through my mind to this day. All together now…………..  Read More →

Freecycle – saving me from landfill shame

Freecycle, you just have to love it, dontcha? If you’ve not heard of it, then Freecycle is the brain child of Deron Beal. Deron lives in Tucson, Arizona and one particularly inspired afternoon he was coming up with cunning solutions to the amount of landfill the company he worked for, used to generate.  Read More →

Sunday Roundup

It’s the end of another zero waste week here at Chez Green. Things have been a little quieter at front of house, as it were, but that’s because there is lots going on behind the scenes for our zero waste week at the beginning of September. We have some really exciting things lined up, including a prize giveaway for EVERY DAY of that week! We have competitions... 

Mr Green goes shopping without his reusable bag

Can you imagine it? There we are at our trusty Co-Op trundling around with our basket when we realise, quelle horreur, that we are sans reusable bag. Dang! How embarrassing for two seasoned non-plastic-carrier-bagging-zero-waste-challengers. “Never mind,” I mutter confidentally; “I’ll buy one of their reuseable cloth bags. I’ve been... 

Mr Green buys cheese without non-recyclable plastic packaging

What a headline – hardly worthy of the Guardian at this stage, and more of a mouthful than an gram of cheddar, but you know how it is; when you’re on a mission, small things please small minds. Mr Green and Little Miss Green are partial to a bit of mature cheddar. In fact, Mr Green is partial to a LOT of mature cheddar. Even Pussus Green has been known... 

Zero waste town in Eastern Japan

The rubbish collectors never come to Kamikatsu, a town on Shikoku Island in eastern Japan. The local council decided to go “Zero Waste” as it was cheaper and more environmentally friendly than buying an incinerator. Everything must be composted or sorted into one of 34 recycling categories. Environment analyst Roger Harrabin paid a visit. reference from... 

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