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’m loving the Blue Planet Effect. Never before has plastic packaging had so much attention. But I’m noticing that people are sometimes d...

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...

The Pitt family have been plastic free now for four months.  Well almost… almost plastic free that is. Any eco challenge would really be p...

This week's shop was pretty successful.  I bought quite a bit of meat including some for my grandmother.  She decided she wanted hers in...

I don't do landfill. But even in West Oxfordshire, where there is a fantastic kerbside collection for most packaging, there are still ...

Well, I'm now in month eight of my swishing year. What have I achieved?  What have I spent and how does it feel?  I thought I'd as...

My local butcher has always sold free range eggs and I've bought them from there a few times, but recently they have introduced a twenty...

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...

Bananas - lots of them - going cheap - or going to waste.  Couldn't bear it! They've been transported all this way. Bought lots, eat...