Tag: food packaging
Mrs Green’s six stories on Sunday
From fire escape gardening to reusing glass jars – a roundup of great green stories
Food waste Friday and weekly weigh in; year 1, week 3
How much food waste and landfill have the Green’s created this week?
Our first home grown harvest
We’ve been growing our own food this year – find out what Little Miss Green has been harvesting already!
Reduce plastic food containers and packaging
Many zero waste enthusiasts take their own reusable containers, along with their reusable shopping bags, when they go shopping! We use them at the butchers, deli counter, fish market and anywhere else where you can buy loose items. Instead of a butcher double wrapping your purchases in plastic sheets and then putting them in a […]
Plastic happens to all of us
See, even hardened zero wasters fall into the plastic trap every now and then. Last week, the cat had her tongue hanging out from lack of food and Little Miss Green had a bacon craving. That was fine, except that the craving was announced 5 minutes before the butcher closed and we were already in […]
Tetrapak recycling in Cornwall
One of our lovely readers, Carole Blake has been busy chasing up her local council in Cornwall about tetrapak recycling. She hasn’t been able to find anywhere to responsibly dispose of her pesky tetrapaks so decided to write to her council and ask them why there is a lack of tetrapak recycling facilities in her […]
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