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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.
Recycling a bag of broken wood
Mrs Green knows the fate of her bag of broken wood Welcome to day three of my ‘zero waste with little emissions‘ challenge. Antonio, one of our readers, wants me to experience life in his shoes. I have to imagine I’m not a car driver and I don’t have kerbside collections, then I have to get rid of five items responsibly. Yesterday I had to...
How to recycle 3 bags of waste without a car
Mrs Green with a bag of garden greens If you read the blog yesterday, you’ll remember that one of our readers, Antonio, set me his “Zero Waste With Little Emissions” challenge in order for me to fully understand some of the difficulties people face with recycling. His particular challenge involves me recycling 5 different items without the use of...
Can you recycle without a car?
Mrs Green fearlessly takes the 'zero waste with little emissions' challenge Never one to shy away from a challenge, one of our readers, Antonio, wants me to explore life in another person’s shoes. (just as long s they are Birkenstocks I don’t mind) I am well aware that my living conditions are not the same as other people’s and I frequently...
The shocking truth about Sainsbury’s packaging?
September 17, 2010 by Mrs Green
In category Waste News
A moment in history for Sainsbury's One of our zero waste readers sent me this story today about Sainsburys who are facing the first legal case over excessive packaging of a product. The company (Sainsbury’s) is being prosecuted over a “Taste The Difference” beef joint said to be extravagantly wrapped and harmful to the environment. ‘Excessive...
A rather negative decluttering post
How can I recycle my 35mm film negatives? The cd jewel cases and discs have now left the building, but I’ve found something a whole lot more scary than those! What I’ve now found in my office are some photo negatives. I don’t want any of them. They are are either out of focus, duplicates, have my finger over half of them and all of them are over...
4 ways to recycle cds
4 ways to recycle cds This week I found some cd jewel cases I no longer wanted when decluttering my office. I also have some cds and dvds to get rid of. These aren’t the sort of discs I could pass on such as music, audio stories, films or computer software, they are more along the lines of personal information such as computer file backups and photographs. For...
It’s time to help Mrs Average!
African child on a rubbish dump This week Mrs A needs our help. During zero waste week, she worked like a trooper to promote the event and take part herself with the help of her local Saints Cafe so I want to step forward and help her latest passion. Mrs A had an email from Megan Cockroft, living in Little Karoo, who wants to set up a recycling initiative to help...
4 ways to recycle cd jewel cases
plastic jewel case for cds ​Yesterday I began decluttering my office. A few years ago this would have meant numerous trips to the ‘tip’ with black bags bulging with unwanted items. Not anymore though! As a zero waster my challenge is to find new homes for items or dispose of them responsibly. I came across several cd cases when I was sorting things...
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
