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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.
How to recycle your water
Mrs Green says "Save your vegetable water!" In honour of blog action day I’m going to share a tiny tip with you. It’s a no-brainer tip and I hope most of you will roll your eyes because you’re doing it anyway. But for those of you who aren’t, perhaps this will give you one more habit to add to your increasing repertoire of eco...
How to recycle your wedding dress
Mrs G, playing Princesses for an afternoon One of our Facebook fans, Lesley, asked me about wedding dresses. She wanted to know if I’d come across any ways of recycling or upcycling wedding dresses. What a great question! How many of us buy the dress of our dreams to wear only once - It seems such a waste, doesn’t it? Please share your ideas in the comments...
The secret of how to grow £875.52 from trash
October 14, 2010 by Mrs Green
In category Guest Posts
Lisa Ueda - the frugal gardener We all know that reduce and reuse come before recycling. In our guest post today, Lisa Ueda, who gardens in central Wisconsin and blogs at The Frugal Garden, tells us how she has grown £875.52 from trash! Lisa’s passion is helping people who are discovering the magic of plants learn about themselves in the process. She is the...
Receipts, recycling and BPA
paper recipts for a month weighing 90gms I’ve got a bit of a thing about receipts and I’ve been wondering recently how many tonnes of paper we get through every year for the sake of a piece of paper showing proof of purchase. For large or expensive purchases, or for warranty purposes I understand the need for a receipt, but for every day things like a...
Mrs Green gets rejected :(
mrs green on the case ... As you know, if I hear about a company doing great things to address the waste packaging and landfill issue, I like to give them the opportunity to share their story on the site. A while ago I came across a brand of crisps (potato chips) called SunChips. I was reliably informed they were the first company to produce crisps in a fully compostable...
Grated cheese and other confessions
Mrs Green confesses all I have to confess that sometimes I’m a bit of a snob. I look around the supermarket at packs of ready grated cheese and plastic containers of mashed potatoes (which, when I check the ingredients are literally potatoes, butter, salt and pepper). I scoff at ‘oven ready’ meals and individually wrapped Babybel (even thought Little...
Don’t buy it .. borrow it from you neighbourhood
October 7, 2010 by Mrs Green
In category Guest Posts
Tracy from Ecomodo During my ‘zero waste with little emissions‘ challenge, one of the things it highlighted was the importance of our local community. Readers suggested organisations they were involved with - Sharehood in the US and over here, LETS, Freecomony, and StreetBank. Our guest post this week is from Tracy Currer at Ecomodo. Tracy’s...
My hero finds the bottle to campaign …
bring back the deposit on bottles and cans I’ve got to confess a bit of soft spot for Bill Bryson. It used to be my ‘tradition’ that whenever I went on holiday, I would treat myself to one of his new literary gems as my reading material and I have some excruciatingly funny stories about the sorts of things I have used his books for in the past,...
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
