MY ZERO WASTE

How to recycle your Christmas

Mrs Green — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:00:06 +0000

Christmas is all but over now and Twelfth night is the traditional time to take down your decorations and say goodbye to the festive season for another year. This is a wonderful opportunity to do some serious recycling and reusing. It also gets you into some good habits to continue throughout 2009. Wrapping paper Glittery or sparkly [...]

How much food waste and packaging did we create over Christmas

Mrs Green — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:00:22 +0000

According to the Love Food Hate Waste campaign we waste, on average, a third of the food we buy each week. However, during Christmas, WRAP claim that this increases by a massive 80%. I want you to stop and think about that for a moment. You only have to set foot into a supermarket pre [...]

Sunday roundup 31

Mrs Green — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:46:03 +0000

Welcome to our first winter Sunday roundup. It’s a cold -6 out there at the moment, but we’ve warm and cheery hearts to share with you, and a big roaring fire helps too. Not much to write today, as we had a week off over Christmas, but we did get a couple of posts up last [...]

Something we do NOT miss about our zero waste lifestyle!

Mrs Green — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:00:16 +0000

We had an interesting experience this week. We put our bin out! This was the first time in around six months. The trouble is, you forget about the things you used to do as habit. I was lying in bed on Tuesday evening in that lovely place between sleep and wakefulness when Mr Green suddenly said [...]

Happy New Year - it’s the countdown to Gloucestershire zero waste challenge week!

Mrs Green — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:00:01 +0000

Hello lovely people; welcome back to the site. The New Year is upon us and we’re raring to go! We have two rubbishy New Years Resolutions here at Chez Green. The first is to get through the entire year without putting our dustbin out (remember, we have an old fashioned metal bin, not a wheelie bin). [...]

Weekly weigh in 31

Mrs Green — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:08:34 +0000

I wasn’t going to post up until tomorrow, but how could we let you wait a moment longer for the total non-recyclable waste created by our Christmas week? I’ll be writing more about it from tomorrow and sharing some of the things we learned, but for this week we have: 1 plastic sausages and bacon tray clingfilm wrapping [...]

Weekly weigh in thirty

Mrs Green — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:05:29 +0000

’twas the night before Christmas and I peered tentatively into the landfill box. Fortunately it was a good week! We have a bit of a conundrum at Chez Green this week but I think we’ve now reached a conclusion about how to deal with it. The thing about Christmas is that there are parties a-plenty, especially [...]

Deck the halls; well the dining room actually

Mrs Green — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:00:08 +0000

The solstice is the traditional day here at Chez Green for decorating our tree. We celebrate Christmas, but more because we have a child than any other reason. I like the Solstice; there is a great sense of ‘we did it!’ for me with getting to the shortest day of the year. From now on [...]

(almost) zero waste packaging

Mrs Green — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:00:52 +0000

I’m feeling a bit pleased with myself. You might remember that I don’t do artistry in any form. Making cards, knitting things, sewing, painting - I leave it all to the experts. Ask me to create a meal from nothing or write a few thousand words on a subject close to my heart then I’m your gal, but [...]

Monsieur Green says NO!

Mrs Green — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:00:30 +0000

Today we popped into our local ‘Aladdin’s Cave’, which sells everything from seasonal decorations to bake ware, home DIY stuff, toys, cards; it’s just one of ‘those shops’; if you want it; they’ve probably got it somewhere. In it we found naked reels of sellotape with a cardboard inner - horrah! We were also after some [...]