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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.

Sunday Roundup

Good morning lovely people. Welcome to another Sunday roundup of all the rubbishy goings on at zero waste towers. I aimed for a quiet week, but instead it’s been a week of preparation for a certain special day coming up on Thursday!  Read More →

Food waste Friday and weekly dustbin demon

Unmarked plastic packaging from clothes I have no food waste to report this week; in fact the fridge is looking decidedly empty. All I know is that I need to use up some broccoli and lettuce over the next couple of days to prevent anything being thrown away next week. Oh, I did have a pear that had gone bad, but when I cut into it, only a quarter had to be tossed... 

Turn your milk bottle tops into pet bowls!

Louise Beams, creator of the recycled milk bottle top eco pet bowl! Our guest post this week is from Louise Beams who has a creative reuse idea for milk bottle tops! Louise is an entrepreneurial mum of two who enjoys keeping chickens and doing archery - but not at the same time of course!  Read More →

Recycling crisp packets on Local News!

screenshot from West Country Tonight I was browsing the West Country Tonight Channel when a headline caught my eye. It read: “A woman from Gloucestershire who recycles so much she produced just one bag of rubbish last year has set up a crisp packet re-cycling scheme.” Well I guessed that might be about me LOL!  Read More →

Reducing food waste with wartime rations?

page from a war ration book Back in November 2008, I borrowed a fabulous book from the library called “Feeding the nation” by Margueritte Patten. This was only a few months after we had begun our journey into zero waste and I found reading the information invaluable for helping reduce our food waste. It wasn’t so much inspirational recipes, but reading... 

Fairtrade fornight and zero waste balloons!

Little miss Green overjoyed to find zero waste balloons for her birthday! It’s Little Miss Green’s Birthday next month and her Birthday isn’t a Birthday without balloons. Personally I hate the things. To me they are litter or landfill waste at best; an environmental hazard to wildlife at worst. Even though Little Miss Green is an animal lover and... 

Sunday Roundup

No rest for the wicked; if all goes according to plan we’ll be up at the crack of dawn, filming with ITV while you’re lounging around in your PJs reading our weekly roundup. For those of you who haven’t had chance to keep up with the site this week, here’s a round up, complete with an ‘out takes’ video for your entertainment.  Read More →

Crisp packet recycling in Tesco Gloucester now live!

Recycling of crisp packets in Tesco Gloucester Didn’t we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor Tesco A beautiful day, we had lunch breakfast on the way and all for under a pound you know so we could save crisp packets going into landfill But on the way back I cuddled with Jack Mr Green and we opened a bottle of cider water (because we don’t drink... 

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