Hugo Rut Hugo Rut is the founder of Lowly Food an online resource dedicated to helping people understand the carbon footprint of the food on their dinner plate and to make choosing low carbon food easy. Hugo provides simple and Read More
Zero Waste Baby Shower Do you know where the term “Baby Shower” comes from? There doesn’t seem to be a definitive answer but it’s thought that it may refer to the mum to be being “showered” with gifts. Apparently in Read More
What Are Single-Use Plastics The media is full of stories on how we should all be reducing our use of single-use plastics. In 2018 the growing concern for the environment and growing awareness of the problems we’ve been creating for Read More
Where Does All Our waste Go? According to official Government statistics, the UK produces 200 million tonnes of waste every year. This is total waste for households and Business with around half generated by households, the amount that is sent Read More
How to Have a Zero Waste Valentine’s Day No sooner have the Christmas Holidays finished and the shops have started filling up with Valentine’s gifts and cards. Did you know that according to the Greeting Card Association, UK shoppers bought Read More
Why Did I Start Blogging About Zero Waste? When I retired in December 2017 and decided to start Blogging I didn’t have any clear idea about what I would Blog about. I knew I’d Blog about family as they are Read More
Food Waste In the UK at Christmas we produce a huge amount of food waste. ReFood say that “Wasted Christmas Brussel Sprouts alone could power a Home for 3 years” Food waste has become such an issue in the UK. Read More
I’m really starting to get in the Christmas mood now. Last weekend we went and chose our Christmas trees although we haven’t put them up yet. And, last night we had our village wine club Christmas dinner. I’m trying very Read More
I love Christmas and I love decorating our house at Christmas. I haven’t actually changed very much with regards to Christmas decorations since we’ve been trying to reduce our plastic waste as I’ve always loved decorating with natural things and Read More
In my Blog about Easy Zero Waste Bathroom Swaps I touched on some swaps for Zero Waste Oral Care but I thought the subject deserved a post all of it’s own. So this post is all about Zero waste Oral Read More
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