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moongoddess

Joined: 24 Jan 2006
Posts: 673

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 08 7:16 am Post subject: eco goodies to be won on our site this week!

Hi all,

We're running a competition on our website next week (it's a family run, non profit website, so I hope it's ok to mention it here).

We have 22 prizes up for grabs - all recycled or ones that will help you reduce / recycle more.

All you have to do is sign up to pledge to reduce your waste https://myzerowaste.com/pledge-win/, carry out your actions and then come back to our site to comment on your experiences https://myzerowaste.com/pledge-win/competition-feedback/.

During the week we are aiming for zero waste - yes, we will be recycling, but our aim is to put nothing out for the landfill.

We started our challenge back in June as a very 'ordinary' household

with 100 litres of rubbish a week - that was 1 metal dustbin and 2 swing bin liners. This week we put out just 55 gms, which I could hold in the palm of my hand. You can see a mug shot of me holding it here

https://myzerowaste.com/2008/08/weekly-weigh-in-twelve/

The aim of our zero waste pledge and win week is twofold:
1- Firstly to allow people to celebrate what they CAN do, rather than focus on what they can't
2- Secondly we hope that people will do something for a week, realise how easy it is and then carry on the good work.

This will be the first of a National Zero Waste Week; so I do hope some of you will join in.

Our local council are watching our progress, and have come on board with a zero waste week for our county at the end of January - much like the ones done in St Edmonsbury and Bath and NE Somerset. We hope that by showing how much interest there is, we can promote reducing and recycling more so that it spreads across the country.

Anyway, enough from me. I hope to see some of you on the site and I hope it's ok to post about this here. I felt it would be relevant and of interest to some of you.

cinders

Joined: 04 Jun 2007
Posts: 2437
Location: norfolk The daft old bat club

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 08 8:01 am Post subject:
I clinked on the last link and was warned a virus was found, not sure if it was from this site.Hope this makes sense, i'm not techie minded just thinking did i hit the www at the bottom can't remember

moongoddess

Joined: 24 Jan 2006
Posts: 673

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 08 8:06 am Post subject:
I'll change my signature line now - we've had problems with that site server (NOT our zero waste site). You'll be ok; it's just a weird quirk, but I'll change it now so that no one gets worried about it. Thanks for the heads up.

moongoddess

Joined: 24 Jan 2006
Posts: 673

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 08 8:07 am Post subject:
All done

gil
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18415

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 08 8:57 pm Post subject:
Hi MG, nice to see you back Sounds like a good project.

moongoddess

Joined: 24 Jan 2006
Posts: 673

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 08 6:21 am Post subject:
Thank you gil, It's been a steep learning curve, but I believe in the cause, so that's good I hope you are well

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