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hen I started my zero waste challenge a year and a half ago, the first pedal to the recycling depot felt like judgement day. It would either confirm or eradicate my waste free ambitions. I'd packed my panniers with cardboard, glass, and plastic, devoid hopefully of any garbage, and I cycled to the depot with both fear and hope in my heart that Barb, the depot manager, would be there. I wanted to see if she would catch me with some unrecyclable, with one brief head shake turn this whole challenge to fantasy, and affirm waste a fact of life.

ero-waste, people are slowly coming round to it. Waste not want not, the concept is both ancient and pioneering. I get this all the time: what do you mean you're zero-waste; what do you do with your garbage? By me saying I'm zero-waste, I am actually saying there is no such thing as garbage. Let me pause while you pick your jaw off the floor.