3 days to go...

The Man form BBC came...we must have looked pretty odd standing in the garden by the composter, as we discussed the merits of degradable packaging into a microphone...what was even odder was the sound effects we had to produce for him for background...toilet flushing, rifling around in recycling boxes...and the best one of all, we tried to get one of the chickens to cluck for the microphone, but Tilly must have been feeling shy!! not even a murmur!!

Despite that, the challenge is well and truly underway...we've committed to getting our rubbish down to half a black bag by the end of Zero waste Week...hopefully with the BBC team coming back on the final day to see us weigh everything...now I know we should be producing Zero, and believe you me, we'll be trying...but there's no point in kidding ourselves and presenting an unrealistic picture to the public.....this is about what everyone can do, realistically in their every day lives, so I think we need to be realistic about our target...if we can achieve half a bag as a family of 4 I think that will be quite an achievement, think what an effect it would make if every family of four in Cornwall followed suit!