Anyone want to join me on a challenge?

[nikkie]

In G2 this week was an article about reducing rubbish to zero, anyone want to join me in attempting it?
(G2s people didn't manage it completly but one family wwas down to 1/2 a bag!)

go on.................

To zero! Or even half a bag. How did they do it?

I would love to hear more, will search for the article. God that must take some dedication, good for you for trying it nikkie

Recycling everything and not buying things if they weren't packaged appropriatly

I have just read the article and I'm impressed, they got down to a quarter bag. This will definitely make me think harder about rubbish this week. I find it bloody impossible to avoid packaging entirely, though. We order from Suma as the family in the article do, and I find we get quite a lot of plastic waste from that. We also drink soya milk which comes in a plastic carton. They don't recycle plastic except for milk carton type here

IN the article they were stuffing the cartons with plastic!
Can you link the article for me?

Also what do you do with tissues?

zero tolerance

I would flush tissues, is that bad? (we only use loo roll except if my nose is exceptionally sore with a cold}

We can only recycle 2 sorts of plastic in our area, the lemonade bottle sort and the milk carton sort. The rest has to get binned.

Of course flush them ,so simple!