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With less than a week to go before the tenth annual Zero Waste Week campaign, I’ve been encouraging participants to take a waste audit. There are two reasons to do this. First, we often don’t realise we’re throwing things away and second, we don’t know WHAT we are throwing away. We just put it in…

Zoe lives in Brighton with her husband and their two children. In 2011, Zoe’s older child was due to start school and her younger was starting nursery. The idea of juggling her family’s needs with her own commute filled Zoe with dread.

Nadine contacted me about getting her business onboard with Zero Waste Week. She is trying to get the word out for people to stop throwing away items and to reuse, recycle and reduce.

Amy contacted me recently. She’s a real waste warrior and is doing brilliantly with reducing waste but still has a few annoying items left to deal with. She writes…

Shirley wrote to me recently. She said “I love you to write about how to engage with your local supermarket/shoppers about how much plastic waste there is. I really want to start doing something but I’ve no idea how to start. I’d like to be more active than just sharing things on Facebook.”

Kath wrote to me this week, asking about the mesh / string bags, that citrus fruit or onions come in. She wanted to know how harmful they were and whether they are biodegradable. We all hate them, but sometimes you end up with them. What do you do with them after use – is there…

Beth wrote to me recently with a fantastic query. She said “Do you have any suggestions for reuse or recycling old plastic phone cards and store cards? We used to send them to a guitar plectrum maker but he doesn’t want anymore.”

Gin contacted me with a query on how to reduce the number of plastic bottles you use. She wrote: