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our zero waste challenge – day one; stepping up to the challenge as a family
I’m so excited to be writing our first Zero Waste blog post. Excited about rubbish? You betcha! Our trusty dustbin is trembling with excitement too. For too long she has suffered the effects of our 21st century lifestyle and has been force fed all sorts of well, rubbish. It’s resulted in a warped tummy and […]
Welcome to My Zero Waste first post!
Welcome to our first blog post on My Zero Waste. If you’ve read some of our pages, you’ll see that we are a family of four (2 adults, 1 seven year old and an elderly cat), who have set ourselves the challenge of reducing our weekly rubbish. We’re launching this site in conjunction with the […]
Monthly challenge for June
Monthly challenge for June For the first month, we’re going to ease you gently into the idea of reducing your rubbish and the amount of waste you send to landfill each week. We’re nice like that. This month we’re setting you the challenge of becoming aware of the recycling facilities that are available in your […]
WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags
by Karen Kawawada at The Record. May 22 2008. Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true. After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, […]
Supermarkets failing to reduce packaging
by Karen McVeigh, The Guardian, Thursday May 29, 2008. Supermarkets are falling behind local high street retailers and markets in reducing packaging waste, a survey has found. Up to 38% of food packaging in a typical supermarket shopping basket cannot be recycled, according to a report by the Local Government Association. Its second investigation into […]
June’s Dustbin Demon
Ladies and Gentlemen. We present to you this month’s Dustbin Demon: The plastic cork! Hands up who has noticed that more and more bottles of wine contain a plastic cork? Prior to our zero waste challenge, these corks have gone in the bin without note. They’re only tiny, they weigh next to nothing, no big […]
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