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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.
Litter dropping shock at Chez Green
Confessionals are great things. You just share all your sins, receive forgiveness and away you go with a spring in your step and a lighter conscience. Ok, so you open yourself up to ridicule and a fast track to hell as well, but we’re prepared to take a chance. Hot off the press: “Little Miss […]
new zero waste habits and weekly weigh in
Hmmm, I feel a theme coming on – yesterday’s post was about habits too. You’ll discover this about me – I contradict myself a lot. Yesterday I was saying how old habits die hard and today I’m raving about how easy it all is. Such is the mind of a Gemini woman. When we initially […]
Putting new habits into place (and failing)
Old habits die hard don’t they? I was tired, rushed and hassled when I placed my weekly Sainsbury’s order. I unpacked it today to realise I had bought three very non zero waste friendly products:
Onya reusable bag disount NOW CLOSED
I’m thrilled to be test driving a reusable Onya Bag. If you’ve read our article on plastic carrier bags, you’ll see that a reusable bag is a much better option for the environment. It helps keep plastic out of the landfill and reduces the amount of rubbish you produce each week. Using your own shopping […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s been a funny kind of day……
We’ve been getting along swimmingly for like, one day with our zero waste challenge, and then Thursday arrived with a bump. I decided to tackle the meat packaging issue. This will contain a bit of a spoiler for another post, but we’ve made great progress with this issue already. I won’t say too much other […]
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