Well, sir. You've stirred it up again this time! Like Father Christmas bringing the promise of happiness to the masses, dropping down our chimneys weekly to empty our overflowing rubbish bins!Nice one!Oh stuff any chance of this being an erudite post. I haven't got time for that. Instead I'll just say it as it is.The weekly rubbish collection bribe that your department has announced amounts to nothing but backtracking on any other forms of common sense that has come out of this year's Waste Review, especially with regard to encouraging greater recycling rates.Today's media...
Friday, 30 September 2011
Friday, 23 September 2011
Measure your recycling with the new Recyclometer
Measuring the impact of recycling is always a challenge, especially when trying to communicate the wider benefits of what is, let's face it, a pretty mundane household task.However, during the summer, along with other bloggers, I was brought in to help road-test Coca-Cola's Recyclometer, a brand new stats-crunching tool, which has been developed in association with WRAP. After a few tweaks, the Recyclometer has now been officially launched, on the company's website and at Recycle Now. providing consumers with a means of calculating the wider impact of their recycling activity, by...
Friday, 16 September 2011
Almost Mrs Average gets to speak at waste exhibition
It was a real honour to speak yesterday at RWM, the UK's largest recycling and waste management exhibition, especially as I was sharing the stage with the very inspiring Joy Bizzard, chair of the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC)The context was very much how local authorities can engage with householders to help individuals and communities reduce waste. Joy's presentation was packed with advice on how councils can raise awareness and find new ways to inspire new audiences, despite the current economic culture of squeezed budgets.The area that particularly interested me...
Sunday, 11 September 2011
Shedwyn gets her skates on for the end of National Zero Waste Week 2011
To celebrate the last day of National Zero Waste Week, I sent the 1000 Bins mascot Shedwyn, into Suffolk's rollerskating venue CurveMotion, to check out their recycling.They have great recycling facilities behind the scenes, but don't have any specific recycling bins in the public zones. Consequently customers end up throwing their empty bottles and cans into the general rubbish bin.Even if there were public recycling bins, there is a real issue that the number of unemptied containers that are often thrown away by the customers, would quickly contaminate any efforts to recycle properly....
Friday, 9 September 2011
Making 2020 Zero Waste Work: Coventry Conference
Professor Paul Connett, presenting at the Coventry conferenceToday, representatives from central government, local authorities and universities gathered together in Coventry along with social enterprises, mulitnationals, waste management companies, the third sector and environmental bodies, to explore how UK society can create a proper zero waste economy in line with aspirations for 2020.For many, zero waste translates as 'zero waste to landfill', but a strong message that was made clear at today's conference was that a zero waste goal should be exactly what it says...simply ZERO waste, achieved...
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Can you recycle plastic film at your supermarket?
Whilst shopping today, I noticed that the carrier bag recycling bin had a new label on it, announcing that the store is also now collecting plastic film, you know the stretchy stuff that you get around loo rolls, multipack shrink-wrap as well as the bags inside cereal boxes. So as it's National Zero Waste Week, I'm setting you a mini challenge.Next time you're at the supermarket, it would be great if you could check if yours has got a similar facility.If you've not spotted it before you may be surprised as this should now be available in over 4,500 supermarkets nationwide. If you don't believe...
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
What happened when Shedwyn ran out of recycling bins
Shedwyn, the campaign mascot for the 1000 bins challenge, has been a bit quiet of late, despite the news that this IS THE LAST WEEK of the campaign and what with it being National Zero Waste Week and all, it was a bit of a shock to catch her putting her feet up in a cafe in town.Sipping coffee, while everyone else is sending in photos. What a cheek!But bless her. She's only gone and run out of recycling bins to photograph in Bury St Edmunds. I suppose there's only so much you can stretch your imagination with just two bins in the very centre of town, and with the car in for repair and having...
Monday, 5 September 2011
Moreton Hall café helps customers reduce waste with their Keep Cups
Meet Lucy and Jess, business partners at The Coffee House, a popular café in the heart of Moreton Hall, which itself is a busy housing development on the edge of Bury St Edmunds.When I dropped in with the family on Day 1 of Zero Waste Week, I warned them that I'd start talking to them about ways in which they help customers reduce waste. I was particularly interested in the success of the Keep Cups that they sell, i.e. the reusable coffee cups, as shown in the photo below.I noticed that they'd been selling these since the café opened in October last year. Priced at £7.99 for a small cup and £9.99...
What's in store for National Zero Waste Week 2011?
I've just realised that the title of this blogpost makes it look like I run a shop. So apologies to anyone who thought I might be doing a stock-check or reorganising my merchandising cabinets with a special twist for Zero Waste Week.Sorry, this is more of a talking shop than a retail space, but if there are any stores who are applying innovative ways of reducing the amount of rubbish they stock, then please do share your news here. After all, the theme of National Zero Waste Week 2011 is "Reducing waste away from home", so if you're doing anything to help reduce the amount of trash that...
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