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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.

Food waste friday

Our food waste for this week; a forgotten cheese sandwich I was just congratulating myself on another zero food waste week here at Chez Green whilst I was doing the washing up and then I opened Little Miss Green’s lunch box. Today she had a packed lunch because we had a busy ‘day on the go’ itinerary. There, sitting forlorn in a brown paper bag was... 

Product review - E-Nat aromatherapy candles

Aromatherapy soya candle from E-Nat You might be aware that I’m a bit partial to my ambient lighting in the evenings. Dimmed lightbulbs, the flicker of firelight in the winter or the glow of a candle will do me. I’m also rather fond of essential oils. It goes without saying that if you add essential oils to a candle, you’ve pretty much got the perfect... 

How to reuse your toilet

Share your innovative reuse ideas with us! We all know the 3R’s mantra by now and the fact that they are in the order of reduce, reuse, recycle for a reason. Reducing saves more resources than reusing, which saves more resources than recycling. We’ve covered a lot of reuse ideas on our site, such as turning old plastic bottles into slug deterrents, making... 

Fabulous tool to help reduce food waste!

Rich winter tomato soup; I can make it now thanks to Supercook! My delectable friend Sarah, who just happens to be a seamstress extrodinaire, shared an exciting website with me this week. It will help you reduce food waste and find inspiration for all that stuff sitting in your ‘fridge and cupboards. How many times, when faced with a bit of this, a slice of... 

Plastic free toilet paper

Ever-Green plastic free recycled toilet paper It’s here at last. Our bottoms can be as green as our erm, faces! We can revel in plastic free toileting for ever Oh, but there’s a catch….  Read More →

Mrs Green’s six stories on Sunday

Co-Op to introduce storage guidelines on their fruit and vegetables bags ‘Tis the end of another week already. Here’s my share of some top reduce, reuse, recycle or compost stories from around the blogosphere. All of which will help us move towards a zero waste future.  Read More →

Food waste Friday and weekly weigh in year 1, week 8

Weighing heavy on the landfill this week; the Green's rubbish This week I’ve been decluttering the kitchen as you know. Interestingly, it’s resulted in less food waste and less money spent on food because I’m finding all sort of goodies in the cupboards to use up. I thought I needed pasta - wrong! I have three bags. I thought I needed tinned... 

Reheating chips (and other foods)

Reheating chips to reduce food waste sent to landfill A while ago I wrote about our zero waste takeaway. Little Miss Green had visited the chip shop and treated herself to some chips. With eyes typically larger than her belly, she couldn’t eat them all and I fed them to the birds, believing them to be non-salvageable. Some things are great reheated the following... 

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