Welcome to the first day of Zero Waste Week 2013. If you want the full emails, you’ll need to sign up, which you can do on our home page, under the video. Once you’re signed up you’ll get daily emails arriving in your inbox containing challenges, hints, tips and recipes.

When I ask people how much food they waste, most people claim none at all. But when I actually challenge them to take a food waste audit, the reality is a bit different, and often a stark awakening.

Welcome to Food Waste Friday. Originally inspired by Kristen, at The Frugal Girl, I’m back on the bandwagon of photographing my food waste for the world to see.

This week I managed to get some delicious fresh cherries from our local organic farm shop. But you know how it is – life tends to get in the way of some of your plans.

I don’t know about you, but the garden here at zero waste towers, is bursting with fresh herbs. Some herbs such as rosemary, thyme and sage last all year round, except in a very hard winter, so you can eat them fresh all year round.

Welcome to “Food waste Friday”! It’s that time of the week when I keep myself accountable by publicly confessing to food waste that is past its best.

Are you managing to avoid food waste, despite soaring temperatures? It hasn’t been below 27 degrees for about 10 days now, and I don’t know about you, but I’ve been noticing just how much quicker fresh foods are going off.

It was Elliott Heap’s enthusiasm to encourage his parents to recycle more that led to his family taking part in a two-week recycling challenge for an ITV1 documentary, ‘Throwaway Britain’, which was broadcast on 1st August.