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
Stock with bumps and bruises means a great deal for you!
Many years ago I had a job merchandising products in supermarkets. It amazed me the amount of stock that would arrive, or become, damaged on it’s way from manufacturer to customer. The standard practice was for the retailer to return the product for a refund, whereby the manufacturer would destroy it. Considering the amount of ... read more.
Spring update
Well, I hope like us you’re enjoying the signs that Spring is well and truly here! We’ve got lots of seeds planted which seem to get moved ten times a day; inside overnight, out into the sun in the morning, under the porch when it starts bucketing down, out into the sun…good ol’ Auckland weather! ... read more.
Renovation rubbish & the perils of buying second hand
In stark contrast to our supermarket bag of rubbish from 2008, this week we filled a massive 60 litre council bag and sent it off to landfill! The culprit? Renovations! A couple of weeks ago we moved from our ‘apartment in the sky’, to the suburbs on the North Shore of Auckland. The term ‘slum ... read more.