English Family Aims for Zero Waste Lifestyle

We’re pretty proud of ourselves that we never come close to filling our garbage bin each week. If anything, we’re overflowing our recycling bin.

I expect we’ll trim that down quite a bit more when we start composting this spring.

But I’m in awe of this Gloustershire family of three who managed to reduce their landfill contribution to one bin of garbage a year, the BBC reports.

As the Strauss family fills a waste bag, they sift through it to be sure there isn’t anything in there that can’t be recycled or composted.

They also buy direct from farmers to avoid packaging. For the same reason, they bring their own containers to the butcher.

The Daily Mail had dubbed the trio “Britain’s greenest family.”

Indeed, their eco-friendliness isn’t limited to food. Their clothes are from thrift shops, they heat their home with a wood burning stove and light their home, at least partially, with solar power.

Their goal for next year is zero waste. Best of luck to them.

I’ll be watching their progress on Twitter and at their website MyZeroWaste.com.

Photo of trash, compost and recycle receptacle at San Francisco’s Ferry Building Marketllace from .imelda’s Flickr photostream.