Brixtonians star in Zero Waste film
"Be Zero Waste - Join Brixton" film flyers, featuring local residents Sophie (with baby Evie) and Angela
On 23rd November at the Loughborough Centre, local residents were among the first to watch themselves and their friends on the big screen (pedal powered by our friends from Cycooldelic Revolution) – as the stars of “Be Zero Waste – Join Brixton”, a new short film showing simple steps you can take towards Zero Waste.
Tips included:
- Take your own shopping bags and buy unpackaged food: lots of the fruit and veg in Brixton Market can be bought loose, and even other types of food are sometimes refillable (for example, you can refill jars of herbs at Brixton Wholefoods, bottles of olive oil at Wild Caper, and jars of preserves at Cornercopia)
- Make the most of your food: only buy and cook as much food as you need; keep food cool (or even freeze it) to make it last; hang onto your leftovers and have a repertoire of recipes for reinventing them! Advice and cooking ideas to help prevent food waste are available from Love Food Hate Waste.
- Give real nappies a try: Sophie was surprised by how user-friendly real nappies were, and impressed by the money savings – even taking into account the costs of washing, real nappies work out 70% cheaper than disposables. In fact she liked them so much she’s started promoting them to other mums, as a nappy champion with Real Nappies for London.
- And of course, recycle the maximum: for an overview of Lambeth’s recycling services, visit this page. Recyclable items include paper and cardboard, glass bottles and jars, food and drink cartons, tins and cans, and many types of plastics (including bottles such as drinks, shampoo and washing-up liquid bottles; yoghurt pots, butter and margarine tubs, and other types of food containers e.g. ready meal trays). For a full list of what you can and can’t recycle, download a recycling guide here.
The film at its first screening on 23 November - with Choman pedalling alongside!
The film got everybody talking afterwards
“Be Zero Waste – Join Brixton” was made for Brixton Low Carbon Zone by a local company called Chocolate Films, and is available to watch on their website here.
It will also be part of a special Christmas screening – pedal powered once again – in Windrush Square between 4-5pm on Saturday 10th December. This is part of Brixton’s “Low Carbon and Zero Waste Christmas Celebrations” – running all afternoon from 12.30pm in the square, where you can:
- find out more about energy saving activities in Brixton Low Carbon Zone
- learn how to make your own Christmas decorations at no cost
- get your bike fixed at Doctor Bike’s surgery
- enjoy festive food and drink
- watch “Be Zero Waste” and other short locally-made videos on keeping your home warm and saving energy
- visit the Remakery stall to find out about our new shared workspace for re-use and upcycling enterprises, opening next year
For details of this event download the Brixton LCZ Xmas poster.
