Mrs Green
I am a long time supporter of the Green and Sustainable lifestyle. After being caught in the Boscastle floods in 2004, our family begun a journey to respect and promote the importance of Earth's fragile ecosystem, that focussed on reducing waste. Inspired by the beauty and resourcefulness of this wonderful planet, I have published numerous magazine articles on green issues and the author of four books.
Mrs Green's Latest Posts
Britain To Burn Trash for Energy
From Time Magazine. By THOMAS K. GROSE Monday, Jun. 09, 2008 For all its fervent advocates, recycling has come nowhere close to allaying the world’s burgeoning production of garbage. Now Britain’s Isle of Wight is presenting what proponents hope will be a parade example of how to deal with the megatons of waste that can’t […]
broken cake and other catastrophes
Preparing Sunday lunch yesterday was an interesting and reflective time. I realised, that without thinking, I was putting any ‘rubbish’ onto the worksurface to deal with once I had prepared all the veg. One short week ago I was automatically throwing things into the dustbin. Since our rubbish collection last Wednesday, we decided to keep […]
Haringey Council introduces full mixed recycling
Congratulations to Haringey council for increasing their kerbside collections! June 7th, 2008 by David Harrison Haringey Council is working to cut their area’s landfill waste drastically and as a result, they are offering a full mixed recycling service to more than 20,000 homes in Haringey. The council is hoping to be able to provide the […]
New recycling plant to create a virtuous circle for plastic
A small corner of east London is set to help tackle the UK’s waste mountain by turning used drinks bottles into safe, reusable food packaging. By Rachel Shields, Independent newspaper Sunday, 8 June 2008 As a new survey reveals that packaging waste is now the biggest environmental concern in the UK, Britain is poised to […]
Sunday summary
It’s been an incredible first week here at Chez Green. The support we’ve had over the past few days has been amazing. On our second day we had over 1000 hits and we had local press knocking on our door. (Well ringing us actually, but the former sounds better). There have been nearly 150 comments […]
There’s a naked chicken in my kitchen
How do you recycle plastic meat packaging? The short answer is, you can’t. Well, not around here anyway. But are we going to take no as an answer? No, nadda, nein, non; of course we aren’t. I had a chat with a great guy at our local council this week. I was asking about the […]
Wanna hear the latest plastics recycling gossip?
The astonishing, absolutely agonisingly atrociously amazing Almost Mrs Average snuck in through the back door of this week’s WRAP conference to listen to very important people discussing very important research and findings into the future of mixed plastics recycling.
Call to extend plastics recycling
Well, this is wonderful news – let’s hope things start to progress even more now with recycling plastics 🙂 From BBC News Thursday 5 June 2008 Mixed plastic items such as salad bags and yoghurt pots can be recycled cost effectively, the government’s waste watchdog has said. The Waste Recycling and Action Programme (Wrap) has […]
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