Home of the Rubbish Free Year
Rubbish, trash, garbage, whatever you call it, we want to help you stop it!
- Practical Advice: check out the Guide for over 85 articles (& growing!) on how to be rubbish free
- Eco Products: browse the Store for products to help lighten your environmental footprint
There are now estimated to be 46,000 pieces of plastic in every square kilometre of every ocean in the world, and in the past 25 years in NZ, we've increased what we throw away by 73%. If we put our waste onto a rugby field we'd have a pile 30 stories high - every month!
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Hi there! We are Waveney Warth & Matthew Luxon, and during 2008 we decided to try and avoid contributing to this growing problem by setting ourselves a challenge of living for a year without sending anything to landfill. The average Kiwi couple sends 1.5 tons of rubbish to landfill You can read more about our challenge, and see media articles on it here. |
Summary of our Rubbish Free Year |
We have learnt a lot about living a rubbish free lifestyle, and learn more every day. This website is here so we can all pool our knowledge and make it as easy as possible.
So, if you have any ideas or suggestions to add to the Guide please send them through to us here!
We've also added a Store to sell items that we've found really helpful, suggestions of products to add to this are very welcome as well.
Recent additions to the Rubbish Free Guide
I know you've heard it before, but it really is easy to bake your own bread! If you're really not into it, there's a couple of other alternatives.
Recent additions to the Store
Recent Blog Posts
New packaging for our toothbrushes!
We are wrapt to announce a change in the…ah…wrapping…of our bamboo toothbrushes! The brushes are now contained within a light paper wrapper and inserted into an unbleached cardboard box. The pack of 12 also come in an unbleached cardboard box. The packaging can either be recycled with your paper recycling, composted, however, I find the ... read more.
A Weekend in Nelson
Its not every Sunday evening that I think, ‘well that was a cracker of weekend’, but it was this one! I’ve just got back from spending the weekend in sunny Nelson, which while being the obvious couplet, is also extremely true – they predicted rain each day of the 10th Annual Nelson EcoFest and on ... read more.
Rubbish Free Hair Care!
It’s been a long time since I, Waveney, blogged – but I want to tell you all about my hair! During our Rubbish Free Year I felt that nice, expensive salon shampoos and conditioners were ‘permissible’ – partly because I had chosen brands with hard plastic containers that can be recycled at kerbside, but mostly ... read more.