Rosie's Ecoblog

I was at the opening of an exhibition in our local village history archive, and someone said to me: "How does it feel now that the r...

I was out jogging just now and picked up this from the verge! I couldn't believe that someone is not willing to share their teabag...

Today's #ZeroWasteWeek challenge is all about the bathroom. The recycling team that I do events for from time to time, tell me they th...

This year's Zero Waste Week is, of course:   all about plastic! I wrote earlier in the year about the Blue Planet effect and what a...

On Tuesday, I was invited to speak along with a fellow zero waster, Hannah, at The Oxford Waste Society. The theme of the talk was cutting...

On Friday I was invited to be part of a panel of experts on Radio Four's PM programme. All week PM has been talking rubbish in an effo...

It isn't just me, is it? People are generally coming to the realisation that packaging is a big problem for the environment. I was rec...

To me, Black Friday means  I go into hibernation and spend nothing until the craziness has passed over and sanity is restored. I've hea...

A few weeks ago I was invited to talk to Robin Shuckburgh about how to reduce waste and make better use of our resources.  Here's the Yo...

Trying to avoid single-use plastic for a year is the hardest challenge I have tried. The reason behind this strange decision that we took wa...

Well done and thank you to Rae Strauss for another inspiring and informative zero waste week. Day four was all about WEEE and furniture. So ...

So today is all about food waste and how to avoid it , and how to reduce the packaging associated with it. My speciality! But today it is go...

Today is all about plastic.  Couldn't be a more appropriate place to start for me! I'm now into my 9th month of trying to live wit...

This naked shopping is becoming a habit.  After my trip to Whole Foods Market  a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I had been hoping to find s...

I had a bit of pumpkin left from pumpkin number two from the Pitt Pumpkin Patch, so last night I made pumpkin and sage risotto.   Hubbub  as...

It has been maybe ten years now that the Pitt family have only needed to put their 'general waste' bin out for collection once or tw...

Yesterday I was asked this question on Twitter… Technically the answer is 'Yes' - Polystyrene can be recycled and I learnt when ...