13 days, 17 to go...

So here is what we have stashed in a tupperware box on our kitchen counter. The illicit product of almost two weeks of Zero Waste.

Our only defence, m'lud, is that the vast majority of it is a consequence of tidying up the house and finishing food which was already started before the Challenge began.

We will attempt to recycle some of it - the spiral binding may be reuseable, and the string the beetroots were tied up with will be useful in the garden somewhere. But the dried wood glue? Clingfilm? Medicine packs? Those ubiquitous envelope windows? Yellow balloons?

I am off to the Engineering Department at the University tomorrow, to visit a lab where they are working on developing composites using hard plastics. So we are bidding a fond farewell to the margarine pot and sundry lids. They will be donated to science, melted down and mixed up with waste fabrics to make insulation panels....watch this space!