Cambridge City Council is running an Environment Fortnight, which is an expanded version of the highly successful Environment Week that was held last year. As part of this event, some of the city councillors have volunteered to put themselves and their families through the rigorous exercise of seeing just how little they can put into their black bins during the month of June. A similar exercise was done last year in Bath and NE Somerset (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/6076100.stm) which caught my attention - but this was only for one week. Reasoning that it is possible to make all kinds of sacrifices for a week, but that a longer period of time requires long-term and realistic life-style changes, the Cambridge volunteers are going for the full month.
The aims of the Zero Waste Challenge are:
1. Demonstrate by example that the City Council is serious about solving the landfill problem which is rapidly overtaking the city.
2. Demonstrate that a significant reduction in landfill can be made by some simple purchasing decisions.
3. Learn first-hand just what is possible and what needs to be changed in order to reduce landfill.
It is not a competition. It is a co-operative learning exercise (even though our unfortunate families are having to suffer too!)
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