The real Good Life: Village turns against supermarkets

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The real Good Life: Village turns against supermarkets

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1770
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Sounds like a brilliant place to live! Hat's off to them... I hope one of the comments is not true, that T****s is planning an express store in the village...
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well done them....a true sense of community.
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Great, Maybe we could all send them our regards and introduce our selves. Contact is Andrew@rathbonesltd.com
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What an inspiring story!
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ZeroWastePackaging - My campaign

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Today, I achieved ZWP in my shopping by visiting 2 local shops for meat, veg and fruit. The idea is to remove packaging from the bin waste as I have already done with recyclables and food waste. I currently empty the bin every 3 weeks but my target is 52 weeks. Can this be achieved?
Bin Waste - 4 weeks - 3.25oz
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What a great link! I'm just starting to encourge my neighbours to eat and buy better by trying to set up a local freerange farmers market+local produce delivered weekly...its giving me aload more confidence that I can do it!!!

I do hate supermarkets ... :mrgreen:
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Re: ZeroWastePackaging - My campaign

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johnhcrf wrote:Today, I achieved ZWP in my shopping by visiting 2 local shops for meat, veg and fruit. The idea is to remove packaging from the bin waste as I have already done with recyclables and food waste. I currently empty the bin every 3 weeks but my target is 52 weeks. Can this be achieved?
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Post: # 96561Post johnhcrf »

Thanks for the kind words. The truth is it can be achieved. The way to do it is see what the waste is, find non-bin solutions (return, re-use, change what is used,etc). What is your goal?

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