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My Zero Waste Journey

Cork City Recycling Facility

Today we went to the Cork City Recycling Facility. For some reason I was picturing some hi-tech manufacturing plant where the sorting and...

Week 8 of Zero Waste

Apologies in advance for the long post - this post is more about our struggle with zero waste and how we are overcoming it. It also...

Week 7 of Zero Waste

This week we had a bit of lazy week - we got the shopping down to 2 shops (supermarket and butcher), I did a tally of the recycling we've...

Week 6 of Zero Waste

When you start up a pantry from scratch it takes time and upfront cost to build up your essentials like spices or bulkier items that will...

Stuff I bought for zero waste

The below is a running list of products I've bought for zero waste including source and costs. These are not all required to go zero...

Week 5 of Zero Waste

This week we got into a bit more of a routine and it's taking us less time to do our shopping. We know which stalls we want to go to and...

Week 4 of Zero Waste

This week was a busy week. Since last Saturday I have been suffering from a cold which caused a few things to come to light. I do not...

Bea Johnson Talk

Bea Johnson, the zero-waste movement advocate, came to Cork on Sep 27th for a talk about her own zero waste journey. I left feeling...

Week 3 of Zero Waste

This week, when I went to put together my list of meals I realised that we still had enough for 6 meals. This is because we were buying...

Week 2 of Zero Waste

This week we were a little less strict with our zero waste shopping. Colm is coeliac so there were some items we needed to get in plastic...

Cooking Eggs

Granola

Small Green Plants

Lemons