Results of January's zero waste week challenge

We took part in the January challenge for Carbon Watchers, which was to get involved with the Gloucestershire zero waste week challenge.

As I mentioned on previous posts, this wasn't a big deal for us as we have been reducing our rubbish since last June anyway.

Anyway, even though we are used to producing minimal waste, we were very pleased with our efforts. We produced just 9 gms. As a family of 2 adults, one child and a cat we were happy with our result.

Our landfill waste was made up from 1 crisp packet and some annoying non-recyclable plastic that came through the post. One was, and I'm very annoyed about this, a piece of plastic moulding used to deliver a PC Power Down from E-On.

Why oh why, does an item that is designed to help you reduce your carbon footprint come with such rubbish (ha ha!) packaging? They have lots of articles and features on their site about energy efficiency and even have a comprehensive 'Energy Challenge'. It seems ironic that a product sent in a cardboard box (big thumbs up) then gets placed in a piece of plastic.

The other plastic was the heat sealing from a new flashcard for my computer. Once again, instead of being happy with putting the thing in a cardboard box, it had to come HEAT SEALED with plastic.

Grrrr..

Anyway, 9 gms - that's cause for celebration and I think I'll be penning a letter to E-On.