Rosie's Ecoblog

Day four of Zero Waste Week was all about Time Saving Tips I arranged to visit a wonderful "SuperHome" local to me prior to thei...

For #TrashlessTuesday, I'm continuing my theme of using the boxes from my signed book copies to clear out some space in my understairs c...

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...

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...

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...

My office is a sea of paperwork going back 20 years. I'm aiming to reduce the amount of paper I'm storing by around 75% before th...

Happy New Year! Here's my post Christmas tidy-up schedule. Eat any leftover Christmas pudding for breakfast. (That's my favouri...

Last Christmas I was given a briquette maker - one of those metal contraptions you use to turn waste paper into 'logs' to burn on th...

I don't even like to think about Christmas shopping until December. But December is here whether I'm ready or not. This year I want ...

I checked out with my local recycling people today and found out that, yes, we can put metal and plastic bottle tops in our curb-side recycl...

Did you know that......? 'Flat plastic bags are hard to remove from paper and are easily contaminated by the leftover liquids in beverag...

  I was thinking about Stocking Fillers this Christmas. It is fun to open lots of little Christmas presents in our Christmas Stockings. Lik...

I'm sure lots of people have been out buying Christmas cards and wrapping paper this week. I like the range at Oxfam. What I like about ...

BBC News reported this morning that Britons will be expected to recycle far more batteries under a new European law which is coming into eff...