The Rubbish Game

The resolutions were not just a flash in the pan for us and since coming up with our 2008 objectives ways of achieving them just keep catching my eye. Now correct me if I am wrong but I think ‘The Rubbish Game’ may have just made recycling sound fun? We are all guilty, well most of us, for not recycling as much as we could due to reasons related to laziness. More often than not the glass bank is too far away to walk all the heavy wine bottles to, or the council don’t collect it from your door so you can’t be bothered to recycle etc.

Fret not; this new Green House initiative hosted at the Dana Centre in the Science Museum might change your mind. It takes place on the 16^th of January 2008 and you could win a prize. The challenge includes answering the question ‘what stops you recycling?’ You can use any medium of your choice to tackle the question including; photos, videos, drawings, collages etc. The event is promising a night of ‘filthy fun’, games and the chance to get some education in reducing household waste.

Overall it looks like good stuff, the website is really fun, and shows some of the ‘What Stops you Recycling’ entries so far….

So click along for some inspiration, or if you just want to be amongst like-minded, non-recycling and waiting to be reformed people.

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had happy holidays and celebrated the start of the new year in style. More importantly I hope everyone is adhering to their new year’s resolutions, whatever they are?

welovelocal.com has a few of its own resolutions it will be aiming to stick to over the coming year - well, four to be exact, a pretty manageable amount. This is the definitive list that the team will be trying to achieve in 2008:

1. Recycle more, much more! Cut down on packaging and take more trips to Unpackaged, they truly are an inspirational company.
2. Keep trying new places. We are based in London, a city with an abundance of great bars and pubs so we have no excuse to keep going to the same watering hole for our after work drinks every time (shame on us).
3. Keep shopping locally. I know we go on about it, and at times it is hard, but every penny spent in the local economy really is a penny well spent.
4. To review more. To document every great place we sample - bi it a pet shop or a hair dressers we must remember to tell others about it. Some of the welovelocal team are guiltier than others - Dan and Max you know who you are!

Hopefully by publishing them publicly on the blog we will be more inclined to keep them.

Good luck everyone, I’ll keep my fingers crossed for all of us!

Photo by Happysnapper over on flickr