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.

Zero waste week

I'm way behind with posts; there is so much I wanted to share on this blog, but things are hectic at the moment, so it's just a quicky. I'll get chance to catch up soon.

Our challenge for this month is to take part in Gloucestershire's zero waste week. This is the one area where we feel confident. Our weekly waste is around 100 grams per week and we managed to go 6 months without putting our bin out, so we're ok with this one.
Rubbish is our thing LOL!

As for the rest of the challenges throughout the year, well, we'll see. They could prove to be a bit of a, erm, challenge :D