Sorry bloggers for a lack of blog on day 4 and 5...a combination of sleep deprivation, extreme exhaustion and a stomach upset didn't help!!
Back in the land of the living now!!
BBC Radio Cornwall came yesterday morning for another look, I think they were quite surprised. We reckon that we've reduced from 10kg last week down to 1kg or less as t stands...
As the Mrs Average points out, to really make Zero Waste Week work, you need to have prepared a bit longer than 1 week in advance...one of the things we've found is that many of the good things we are doing this week, wont make a difference until after Zero Waste Week...we're still finishing off things that were bought before Zero Waste Week when we weren't necessarily being as careful as we should have! Oh well, its a learning curve.
One thing we need to get to grips with is buying in bulk to reduce packaging. In particular, where can we get flour in bulk? cereal loose? and things like that.
This weekend will be interesting, you always produce more when all the family is home consuming!
Finally, the real hit this week has been our conquering of night time nappies, whilst we've had the odd blip, we have managed to use them every night and its made a real difference...the home made wet wipes has also been easier than we thought....really pleased with that.
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Friday, 24 October 2008
Saturday, 18 October 2008
2 days to go...
getting nervous now...have we set ourselves up for a fall!
Following the radio interview on Thursday, BBC News are now interested and coming to see us on Monday morning as we have our first weigh in...this is when we'll be taking the black bag waste from the week before Zero Waste Week and seeing what we normally throw out...a week later we'll see what difference we've made!
So the pressures mounting...I'm really worried that we wont get the right mes
sage across...the whole point of doing this is to show that an average family of 4 can make a real difference to their waste by doing some simple things...OK, so as the boss of an environmental organisation you could say that we're not a normal family and that we should be leading the way already...but reality is that we do our best, but it could be better. Yes we recycle, compost, reuse and try and buy products that are recycled and recyclable...but if you see our black bag today you'll notice that there's a lot we can do to improve...hidden nasty's like the odd pull up for our son can really make the difference...although we've been avid users of washable nappies throughout their childhoods, its getting more and more difficult as they potty train and as our lives become more hectic...but that's no excuse and during ZWW (Zero Waste Week) we'll be ditching the disposable completely...a new government report was published yesterday, under the cover of darkness because it highlights the errors in a previous report conducted by the government that slated washable nappies....this new report is much more positive and shows parents that if you use washables sensibly, you can lower their carbon footprint by over 40%, that makes them significantly better than disposables...and as a user of them, you have a choice over what impact they have on the environment...with a disposable nappy you don't because the impact is largely in its creation...see www.crnp.org.uk for more on washable nappies.
I've just bought some new worms for our wormery as well...our food digester (http://www.greencone.com/home.asp?lang=1) has started to slow down over the winter so I figured a new injection of 500 worms (http://www.wigglywigglers.co.uk/) would help us get rid of all our kitchen waste, and that's meat and dairy as well....food waste can be up to 60% of your waste to landfill so composting and using wormeries makes a huge difference, and the kids love it! Right, dinner beckons, meat from the butcher (no packaging), vegetables from the farm shop (no packaging) and smoothies made from real fruit this afternoon...no packaging but lots of mess!!
Following the radio interview on Thursday, BBC News are now interested and coming to see us on Monday morning as we have our first weigh in...this is when we'll be taking the black bag waste from the week before Zero Waste Week and seeing what we normally throw out...a week later we'll see what difference we've made!
So the pressures mounting...I'm really worried that we wont get the right mes
sage across...the whole point of doing this is to show that an average family of 4 can make a real difference to their waste by doing some simple things...OK, so as the boss of an environmental organisation you could say that we're not a normal family and that we should be leading the way already...but reality is that we do our best, but it could be better. Yes we recycle, compost, reuse and try and buy products that are recycled and recyclable...but if you see our black bag today you'll notice that there's a lot we can do to improve...hidden nasty's like the odd pull up for our son can really make the difference...although we've been avid users of washable nappies throughout their childhoods, its getting more and more difficult as they potty train and as our lives become more hectic...but that's no excuse and during ZWW (Zero Waste Week) we'll be ditching the disposable completely...a new government report was published yesterday, under the cover of darkness because it highlights the errors in a previous report conducted by the government that slated washable nappies....this new report is much more positive and shows parents that if you use washables sensibly, you can lower their carbon footprint by over 40%, that makes them significantly better than disposables...and as a user of them, you have a choice over what impact they have on the environment...with a disposable nappy you don't because the impact is largely in its creation...see www.crnp.org.uk for more on washable nappies.
I've just bought some new worms for our wormery as well...our food digester (http://www.greencone.com/home.asp?lang=1) has started to slow down over the winter so I figured a new injection of 500 worms (http://www.wigglywigglers.co.uk/) would help us get rid of all our kitchen waste, and that's meat and dairy as well....food waste can be up to 60% of your waste to landfill so composting and using wormeries makes a huge difference, and the kids love it! Right, dinner beckons, meat from the butcher (no packaging), vegetables from the farm shop (no packaging) and smoothies made from real fruit this afternoon...no packaging but lots of mess!!
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