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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.
Extend the life of your ink cartridges
How much ink ends up wasted with printer cartridges? The other week I had to buy new ink cartridges for our printer. As well as the clam shell packaging to be disposed of I was feeling a bit cheated on how much ink might be left in the cartridge. Unless you have a printer with separate colours, most inkjet printers come with one colour cartridge; comprising the three...
Mrs Green’s six stories on Sunday
Branded recycle zones by Coca Cola It’s time for our round-up of this week’ s great reduce, reuse, recycling and compost stories from around the globe. If we all work together, we can hopefully create a zero waste future. Read More →
Food waste Friday
Some of the Green's food waste this week Alas, I hang my head in shame this week with our food waste. I’ve been a busy Mrs Green, nursing our sick cat, and not very good with using things up. Items have festered in the fruit bowl, fretted in the fridge, withered on the work surface and crumbled in the cupboards. Read More →
weekly weigh in’s. Year 1, weeks 13-16
Mr Green with a month's worth of landfill rubbish I need to get back into my weekly weigh ins, I’ve been a bit of a weigh in slob recently. This week then, we have a month’s worth of landfill waste to go through. If you’re new to the site we have a couple of goals for 2009. Read More →
The bottom line is: cracks are starting to appear
The Green's toilet seat; on its way to recycling Things are falling down around us at zero waste towers this week. You only need take a look at the photo to see what I mean. Have you studied closely my toilet seat? What do you see at the back of the seat? Read More →
Listia - Reduce, reuse, recycle
Listia - recycle for free and keep things from the landfill If you’re a Freecycle fan, you’ll know that for all the people who love Freecycle, there are just as many who loathe it. Many dissatisfied users have set up their own systems - a variation on the theme of giving things to others for free rather than throwing them in landfill. We did an extensive...
Tell us what you want, what you really, really want!
tell us what you think! My zero waste has been around for nearly 18 months. Over that time we’ve covered three four zero waste challenges, several Birthdays, lots of furry food, scary skeletons in the cupboard, litter picks, and a good smattering of ‘How tos’ What we’d like to know is - where do we go from here? Read More →
Working towards a plastic bag free UK
have you ditched the plastic carrier bag? I’ve been talking to Tony Langham, founder of ‘SCRAP‘ (Salisbury city residents action on packaging). On International Plastic bag free day he and his friends gave away over 400 cotton bags to local residents. His local Tory MP was there too, to offer support and hand out bags to local shoppers! Read More →
Getting Top Dollar when recycling your mobile phone
Never judge a book by its cover
Mrs Green recycles breakfast
Do solar panels really work during the winter?
is zero waste fuel here?
Recycling in the garden
Mrs Green reflects on E.ON Innovation
Reducing waste at work
