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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.

A zero waste Christmas present

Right, I’m going to show you something quickly on the screen and then you have to eat your computer because Little Miss Green mustn’t see it, ok? You see I decided that it was time to put Mrs ‘D for effort’ Davis, my needlework teacher at school, to rest once and for all. Every time I have picked up a needle and thread since school I’ve... 

Mrs Green’s six stories

Pupils from a school in Leeds buried in a years worth of junk mail It’s my time of the week to round up some great zero waste stories from around the world. Each story will help you reduce, reuse, recycle or compost more!  Read More →

Food waste Friday and weekly weigh in year one week 24

This week's tiny weigh in from Chez Green Another week has whizzed past here at zero waste towers. Our bin is getting fuller and we’re still wondering whether we are going to achieve our goal for 2009, which is to only have our bin emptied once. Last time was the first week in January, so we have to make it to the end of the year to succeed! In order to... 

Save your seeds and feed the world

Save your seeds and help end hunger Do you eat fruit and vegetables? What do you normally do with the seeds? Would you save those seeds to benefit a small African Village? Our guest post this week comes from Safia Soliman. Inspired by the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals [MDG’s] - to reduce / remove hunger and therefore poverty, globally, Safia... 

What I hate most about a zero waste lifestyle

Mrs Green's plastic mountain for recycling Most of our zero waste lifestyle is ok. It’s a little bit inconvenient to start with; you forget your bag or your container, you have to wash things up to recycle instead of throw them in the bin and you need to keep a tight reign on what is festering in your fridge or rotting in the fruit bowl. It’s a bit... 

How one decision can reduce your waste by ten per cent

Choose your packaging wisely! Over the past few weeks we’ve become a bit slovenly with taking our own reusable containers to the deli counter. We used to be good at remembering to take our boxes along with our bags to the supermarket, but sometimes new habits take a long time to get in place.  Read More →

I don’t have room to compost!

Composting doesn't need much space One of the themes of our zero waste website is to encourage readers to view their ‘rubbish’ as a resource. A simple way to achieve this is with composting. With home composting, you can divert valuable ‘waste’ from the landfill and make yourself a great soil improver for the garden. You can use the finished... 

Food waste Friday and weekly weigh in year one week 23

Our landfill waste for this week We had a bit of food waste this week, but Mr Green had bravely got rid of it before I got the camera out. There was no excuse for it at all, it was just one of those things that got pushed to the back of the ‘fridge. However, there was even less excuse for this really because I’d figured that things get pushed to the back... 

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