Tuesday, March 18, 2008

The Rubbish Diet

empty wheely binHave you been following the progress of The Rubbish Diet? Regular Bean Sprouts commenter Karen Cannard (aka 21st Century Mummy, aka almost mrs average) has been aiming to slim her bin to a size 0 by Zero Waste Week which started on 10th March, and she has been blogging about her family's quest to do just that.

The latest entry tells how, with a lots of effort and a bit of lateral thinking, she put only one item in her black (landfill) bin during zero-waste week - a used sticking plaster. She also starred on BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour between the 10th and 14th of March, and you can listen to the show on the Women's Hour website.

I loved the way she announced it:

Today is Bin Day and I am going to celebrate by NOT PUTTING THE BIN OUT...because for the first time in my life as a responsible adult...there's no need to.....HOORAY! Indeed, if I keep this up, I won't have to put it out for weeks or months!

We all hate putting the bins out, don't we? Wouldn't it be great if we could all make as little waste as Karen, so we didn't have to put the bins out at all?

9 comments:

Matron said...

Hey! congratulations on being in the top 50 blogs in the Observer last Sunday! Three cheers for blogging gardeners!

Anonymous said...

We pride ourselves as well on having about one bin that size worth of landfill waste about every six weeks; everything else is recycled, paper burnedm and scraps composted. :)

marigold said...

I wish I knew about this contest sooner; although, they should call it The Rubbish Fast!

Unknown said...

We've an ordinary size wheelybin which is collected fortnightly. On occasion we've forgotten to put it out and never had trouble going another two weeks. It doesn't smell because there's only plastic in there. Paper and card gets recycled or composted along with food scraps. Most plastic bottles go round again, too as does metal and glass.
Nearby families, the same size as ours, have trouble fitting even a fortnight's rubbish in the bin. Most of it seems to be ready-meal packs, which we don't use.

ema said...

we're now a family of 6 including 2 babies in nappies (but of ciourse we cheat & use cloth nappies..) and we rarely put our bin out more than once every 3 weeks. next door have 2 children and theirs is overflowing every week! it always feels good that we put ours out so infrequently!

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