Today’s guest post is written by Viplikes, who can help you kick start your social media engagement with their tips for promoting causes that are important to you: Let’s be realistic—saving the world is not always the most glamorous proposition on social media. Zero waste living is a dream, but when viral dance challenges and…

Littering in and around schools and colleges has always been an issue, but it can slowly improve as pupils and students gradually learn to respect their environment. The arrival of vaping adds a new threat and dimension to the problem, with the risk of fires and pollution added to typical risks from food, drinks and…

I’m sure you’ve experienced that moment when you hear a statistic or read a statement that stops you in your tracks. For me, it was about plastic bottles. I learned that around the world, we use about 1.2 million plastic bottles per MINUTE. That’s shocking, isn’t it? And worse still, it’s estimated that only 9%…

What a campaign week! It was an emotional rollercoaster for sure. I began the week by making an announcement that after fifteen years, this would be the final year of a content-led campaign. I shared my deeply personal reason for that here. So it was a bitter sweet week for me. And later it became…

So what’s the future for reusables? Do they even have a future? Nothing is more certain than the fact we need to make better use of our planet’s resources. That’s not in any doubt. Cutting down waste is clearly a good place to start to achieve that. Reuse and refill has great potential for cutting…

How much litter did you pick up yesterday? Did you find three pieces or was it less or more? We’d love to know. I cleaned up this little lot!  Today I’m going to talk about how trying to solve one problem can sometimes lead to creating another problem. This is something known as “unintended consequences”. You…

Today is all about Litter. You might ask what that’s got to do with Refill and Reuse. We feel there’s an important connection. What if everything we make that we don’t consume,  by which I mean eat or drink, was part of a true circular economy? Let’s take a look at what circular economy really…

Day two of this year’s Zero Waste Week is all about “refill” for your grocery shopping.  As part of my research into refill in the UK earlier this year, I started a survey to see how many people use refill, what they refill and why. It also asked why people didn’t refill. It probably comes…

Welcome to the fifteenth annual Zero Waste Week. This year is all about Refill and Reuse. Earlier this year, I was invited to investigate the state of play of Refill in the UK in 2022. It certainly seems like Refill is becoming more and more popular, particularly as we understand the need to control the…

Welcome to the 15th annual Zero Waste Week! Do you want the good news or the bad news? Well, the good news is we have a fantastic never-done-before theme for this year’s campaign. I’m hugely grateful to Anna for researching and doing all the leg work for this year’s content. She’s got something for everyone,…