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The 2020 recycling and composting target could be reached today!

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The 2020 recycling and composting target could be reached today!

Well this is something to celebrate. Mr Green and I have said all along, that if money and resources were put into education and reprocessing / recycling facilities we could solve the whole landfill – incineration – ships to China issue within a year. According to Gloucestershire council we could reach it today!

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Why not ask your council to have a go?

Filed in Blog by on March 17, 2009 21 Comments
Why not ask your council to have a go?

Here in Gloucestershire we were doing it with our council at the end of January. St Edmundsbury did it with their community a year ago. Bath and North east Somerset have done it twice, Essex did it last week and Norfolk had a go at the end of last year. What am I talking about?

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Mrs Green meets Aunty Rubbish

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Mrs Green meets Aunty Rubbish

My we had fun! On Friday I popped over to our local Budgens store for a couple of things and who should I meet, but Gloucestershire zero waste week’s very own Aunty Rubbish! What an honour! I nearly flung my knickers at her I was so excited.

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Are you taking part in zero waste week?

Filed in Blog by on January 11, 2009 8 Comments
Are you taking part in zero waste week?

Gloucestershire zero waste week takes place 26th January 2009 until 1 March 2009. It’s an opportunity for you to have a go at reducing your waste. By recycling what you can, composting and reusing where possible you can make a dramatic difference to the amount of landfill waste your household creates each week. Some of […]

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Results of our zero waste week

Filed in Blog, Videos by on September 10, 2008 12 Comments
Results of our zero waste week

This is the moment you’ve all been waiting for! Due to the story the other night on recycling in the UK, this got put back for a couple of days, but we’ll keep you in suspenders no longer. For some reason, the quality of this isn’t very good, but you’ll get the idea. Did we […]

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Interview with Little Miss Green about zero waste week

Filed in Blog, Videos by on September 7, 2008 6 Comments
Interview with Little Miss Green about zero waste week

All week long, I’ve been hogging the blog! Mr Green has been working behind the scenes and adding some posts and comments, but we’ve heard nothing from Little Miss Green. I offered her the opportunity to write her own post but she declined with a scowl and a  ‘I’m not using the computer!’ I then […]

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Our zero waste celebration Sunday lunch

Filed in Blog by on September 7, 2008 3 Comments
Our zero waste celebration Sunday lunch

It’s a bit like Christmas really; zero waste week is nearly at an end after months of planning. We had our Saunday lunch, had a sleep afterwards and now there are a few hours left to enjoy the day. We had another near miss just before lunch. We thought we had struck gold in the […]

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Welcome to the final day of zero waste week

Filed in Blog by on September 7, 2008 9 Comments
Welcome to the final day of zero waste week

Welcome to the final day of zero waste week, and what a week it has been. So far we’ve got nothing for landfill, despite a few near misses. Last night I ran out of a reel of sellotape and was left with a plastic inner. Little Miss Green said she would reuse it for her […]

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