Well, wash me down with some soapsuds. We've hit Week 6 of the Rubbish Diet Challenge, which means after taking time out this week for some much needed personal care, and getting ready for next week's declutter, we will soon be hitting the Zero Waste Week and it will all be over.But before you can put your feet up and give yourselves a well-earned rest, I'm going to get you to mull over your beauty regime.So if you've got time for spot of pampering while you ponder your waste reduction challenge, roll up your sleeves, take a deep breath and relax....preferably in the vicinity of your bathroom.Week...
Monday, 27 February 2012
Saturday, 25 February 2012
The Rubbish Diet, Wk 5: A cold, compost & Master Composters
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It's a good job this week's topic was garden related, because I've spent much of the week thinking about how much compost I've been creating.And trust me, I've been creating loads, mainly of the citrus peel variety. All because I came down with a cruddy cold on Monday and I've been busy fighting it with, amongst other things, some decent doses of vitamin C.Citrus peel is one of the many items that you can add to a compost heap. However, unlike my lazy approach, advice is that chopping or tearing it up into smaller pieces will help it compost better. But frankly, this week, I've...
Monday, 20 February 2012
Monday Meeting: The Rubbish Diet Challenge Wk 5
Welcome to Week 5 of The Rubbish Diet Challenge. This week, the focus is on the garden and with Spring almost in the air, it's perfect timing to start thinking about how your garden can help reduce rubbish, as well as how you can reduce waste whilst gardening.Even if like me, you're not a particular useful gardener and are more likely to fall into the category of willing but hapless, there are still things that you can do, to inspire you to keep slimming that bin.So for those who are ready to embark on Week 5, have a think about this week's mini-challenges.1. Stop buying those...
Saturday, 18 February 2012
The Rubbish Diet, Wk 4: Saturday catchup. Bins, Blogs, Zambia & Cars
I'm afraid I've not been around much this week, but with very good reason. It's been a very busy half-term holiday and we've been scuttling around keeping the children entertained, including visits to London and Cambridge.Of course, always on the look out for rubbish inspiration as well as examples of urban grot, I had my camera at the ready to snap some photos, some of which were tweeted using the hashtag #RubbishHolidaySnaps. Well, one has to maintain one's reputation, don't you think, especially when it's been previously noted in the national press.But it's great to see that more...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Meet the bin slimmers from Bucks & Lincs
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Each week, since the start of The Rubbish Diet Challenge, we've had the chance to learn more about the individual challenges and the focus of each of the households that have volunteered to be taken through their waste-busting missions. We've scooted around Suffolk, dropped into London, as well as New York, and now this week, it's time to visit Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire to catch up with two more families who are making great changes to their waste.Meet MelanieMelanie lives with her husband, two children and their pet dog (and a seasonal snowman), in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire.Although...
Monday, 13 February 2012
Monday Meeting: The Rubbish Diet Challenge Wk 4
Welcome to Week 4 of The Rubbish Diet Challenge. I can't believe that already we're almost half-way through. In one way, it feels like a hard slog, but in other ways, the time's been whizzing along, and it will be Week 8 before we know it.Sadly I didn't get a chance to publish the regular Friday Journal during Week 3, due to battling a cold and Wi-Fi failure, but did you spot the latest news from Sainsbury's? In a bid to help reduce food waste, their new labelling will now advise customers that they can freeze products right up to the Use By date, replacing outdated advice which instructed...
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Meet the bin slimmers from Suffolk
Every week, I like to find out more about the households that have taken on the Rubbish Diet Challenge and who have allowed me to have a physical or virtual rummage through their bins. And this week, we're back in my own county of Suffolk to catch up with a couple of bin slimmers, Kate who lives in one of Mid Suffolk's pretty villages and Jax who lives over on the coast.Meet Kate Kate lives with her husband in Mid Suffolk, just a few miles away from Ness, who was featured on the blog a couple of weeks ago. I had the pleasure of visiting her quite recently, where she was brave enough...
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Tom Hunt and The Forgotten Feast
Tom Hunt, the creator of the Forgotten Feast.Thankfully it's not just householders standing by their rubbish bins at home who focus hard on food waste, there are plenty of unsung heroes in the catering sector who are tackling the issue head-on too, combatting much wider problems than we have on the home-front. Given the challenges of Week 3 of The Rubbish Diet, I thought it quite timely to introduce a fabulous idea, known as the Forgotten Feast that's about to hit London by storm. The Forgotten Feast is a new restaurant concept organised by Tom Hunt, (chef at waste awareness events Feeding5k...
Monday, 6 February 2012
Monday Meeting: The Rubbish Diet Challenge Wk 3
Blimmin' 'eck, don't these weeks come around so fast. Already we're getting cracking with Week 3 of The Rubbish Diet Challenge and what a week we've got coming up!After testing out your recycling muscles and sending you off shopping, this week we're going to tackle the slops. Yes, it's time to talk food waste.Now food waste is a topic that's really close to my heart because four years ago, when I first attempted to slim my bin, I was a total slopaholic. You know the kind of thing. My life was very much like..."if you cook too much food, no worries, just bung it the bin". ...
Friday, 3 February 2012
The Friday Journal: Week 2's rubbish highlights
So, hello you wonderful gaggle of bin-slimmers! It's almost the end of Week 2 of The Rubbish Diet challenge and what another fantastic week it's been, with our EIGHT households dotted around the country - and New York - facing up to the challenges and in most cases overcoming their frustrations to reduce their waste. It's been brilliant to see them reporting back on local recycling facilities that they've discovered, and not just those provided by their local councils but opportunities supplied by chain stores too, which have take-back facilities for plastic film (e.g. supermarkets), batteries...
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Meet the bin slimmers in London & New York
It's been great catching up with the volunteers who have taken The Rubbish Diet challenge, and finding out more about the specific issues that they are facing, as well as the new opportunities that they are discovering to help them reduce their household waste. So, having introduced you to a couple of households in Suffolk last week, this week we're heading for the city, or rather two cities, and saying hello to Donna in London and Amy over in New York.Meet Donna Living in London, with a challenging job that involves spending a lot of time away from home, means that with most aspects of...
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