What a start to the day...BBC Spotlight were with us for 2 hours filming what's going on...they loooked at a range of things from our Green Joanna, to our wormery and the wahable wet wipes we've made at home! The boys were filmed lugging all their recycling up the drive and it finished off with a visit to the local butcher who has said that if our meat keeps well enough in the fridge in paper bags, that they'll consider offering it to all customers. This is what Zero Waste is all about, community spirit...we'll try and get some Green Joanna leaflets for the butcher so it goes hand in hand with the paper bags.
Watch out for BBC spotlight at 1.30pm today and 6-6.30pm this evening...you can watch online or on freeview from anywhere in the country! http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/
Oh, and do have a look at the County Council website, their supporting Zero Waste Week in a big way through their campaign, Recycle for Cornwall. See: http://www.recycleforcornwall.org.uk/
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Monday, 20 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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