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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.

When two rights can make a wrong

Mrs Green's good idea goes ****! up Take the humble sheet of paper. Once you’ve used it, it’s easy to recycle in your nearest paper recycling bank or even at your kerbside. Take a piece of polythene. Again, once used, it’s easy to recycle with the carrier bags at some supermarket. But what happens if you wrap that piece of paper in the polythene... 

Our 3 recycling stories of the week

Are UK consumers ethical or not? Find out with the Guardian! Morning lovelies, it’s the time of the week again where I share some link love with other great stories on the internet. Each story will focus on reducing, reusing our recycling our way to a zero waste future.  Read More →

Is it better to waste food or buy plastic?

is it better to buy naked and waste or buy half in plastic? Inspired by something one of our readers, Teresa, said the other day I wanted to pose a question to you. As you’ll be aware weighing up one ‘eco credential’ against another one isn’t easy, especially when, as consumers, we are not privy to the whole story. The other month we asked... 

How to recycle polystyrene pellets (packing peanuts)

How to recycle polystyrene packing peanuts One of our readers, Cath, bought up a great point about one of my personal bug bears. Cath’s lovely husband treated her to a bulk order of her favourite veggie sweets from an organic supplier. She was rather shocked to find a huge number of polystyrene pellets (packing peanuts for our friends across the pond) with which... 

The tale of Sunrise the rabbit

She may look cute, but she's in the dog house Sunrise the bunny is in the dog house, so to speak. Although she has hopped her way into our hearts and home, she has not grown out of her nibbling habit. We don’t mind if she’s nibbling hay, grass or doing the weeding by nibbling the dandelions; but excavating the wall through from the fireplace into a... 

It’s Real Bread Maker Week 9-15th May 2011

Dust of your bread machine for real bread week Over on Michael’s Green (Living) Review I discovered Real Bread Maker Week  which runs from 9th-15th May 2011 The idea is that you dust off your unloved bread machine and use it to bake Real Bread, or pass it on to someone who will. According to the campaign, there are an estimated 10 million unused bread machines... 

Good morning Germany!

Mrs Green and the crew from Galileo TV If you follow our zero waste twitter account or My Zero Waste Facebook page, you’ll be aware that a few weeks ago we did some filming with the production team from Galileo TV from Germany. Galileo is the number 1 science programme in Germany which airs for an hour each evening and is avaialable in Austria and Switzerland... 

The fourth R

Mr Green shows off his handy work I love playing around with as many Rs as I can come up with. We all know the three Rs - reduce, reuse, recycle and hopefully by now you know that they are in this order for a reason… Recycling comes last on the list because it saves more resources and is less energy intensive to firstly REDUCE the things you consume i.e. separate... 

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