I was thrilled to be contacted by Ruth who signed up to the Zero Waste Week challenge recently. She asked some great questions which I know will help you too. Ruth said “The two things I struggle with the most are finding time and remembering to do things so I’m hoping you’ll have lots of…

Each year there are several events that take place during Zero Waste Week. If you’re running an event during the week of September 9th 2016, let me know and I’ll add it to the list!

We’re hitting a heat wave here in the UK, and I’m thinking about effects on food waste. I asked our Facebook group whether hot weather increased food waste in their households. I was thinking about scenarios such as flies landing on food, foods ripening and going off more quickly, or dwindling appetites in the heat…

This year’s Zero Waste Week theme is ‘Use it up!’ where we’ll be tackling food waste. I’m passionate about this theme because while one third of the food grown on this planet never reaches a human stomach, one in nine people go to bed hungry.

We’re focusing on Food Waste for this year’s Zero Waste Week, with the theme “Use it up!” Food waste is a massive problem with one third of food grown on this planet never reaching a human stomach.

Zero Hero Liz wrote to me from Australia and wanted tips for freezing bread without using plastic. I asked our fabulous Facebook community what worked for them and this is what they said:

Zero hero Claire (who lives in the area of Wokingham Borough Council) wrote “My local council is pretty minimalist when it comes to what we can recycle. What I find most difficult is the plastic trays you get meat in and the plastic tubs you get fruit in.

As one of her New Year’s Resolutions, Angela wants to  stop bring stuff into the house, but it’s providing  difficult. She wrote…

Julia wrote to me about plastic waste; which has been troubling her for years. She felt no one cared, but finding Zero Waste Week helped her realise there are MILLIONS of us who care!

The other week, one of our community members – Zena – told us that animal shelters love old towels, bedding and even synthetic filled pillows and duvets. I shared this in my newsletter and more ideas came in about what we could do with old bedding