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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.

Mr Green’s cunning reuse for polystyrene

Sheet of polystyrene used by Mr Green Polystyrene (Styrofoam) has to be the bug bear of any zero waster. Virtually impossible to recycle in the UK, it breaks up into tiny beads for animals to choke on and there’s an abundance of it floating the Pacific Garbage Patch. We’ve had sheets of this pesky plastic (code #6) taking up room in our garage for ages,... 

Mrs Green, the ‘radical recycler’ on BBC CountryFile

Mrs Green being fondled by the BBC Sound Man The other week we received a call from the BBC. The CountryFile team were planning a special report on Waste Packaging and wondered if we’d like to take part. Would we?!  Read More →

Why didn’t I think of this before?

This week I learned something new from a can of tuna! I can’t believe I haven’t thought about this before. The other day Little Miss Green picked up a prepared salad in the Co-Op. It came in an unsightly unmarked plastic pot with a film lid and when I looked at the ingredients it was basically tuna, sweetcorn, red pepper and pasta in some kind of dressing. It... 

Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic

Capt. Charles Moore from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation I’ve unashamedly ‘borrowed’ this from Isabel’s Plastic Diaries blog. She posted up a link to this TED talk and I was mesmerised. It reminded me why we’re doing what we’re doing to try and reduce our trash.  Read More →

Excess packaging spotted in Lidls

Mrs Green discovers the pomelo You say pomelo, I say ’strange looking fruit that I’ve never seen before shrink wrapped in plastic, thrown into a plastic net and given a plastic handle for good measure’. Yes ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been at it again in my local store. This week I spotted a pomelo, which I’ve since discovered is a citrus... 

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