ENVIRONMENTALLY-CONSCIOUS Karina Wells estimates her family's weekly waste weighs just 1kg.

It means Karina, her husband and two children throw away 250g of materials each every seven days.

The West Bridgford family try to reduce the packaged products they buy and grow and cook a lot of their food to prevent waste.

"We have hardly any waste. I do everything from scratch," said Karina, a member of green group Transition West Bridgford.

"I won't buy soup in a can or biscuits. If you have nice recipes you make them in no time.

"I buy packets of butter so I don't have margarine tubs.

I don't buy yogurt. I make it so I don't have yogurt pots.

"When I get oranges in those nets I take the nets back to the shop so they can reuse them.

"I make bread, jams and marmalade.

"Most of the jars I have are ten years old or more because I keep reusing them.

"I compost too. It's like gold to me because I don't have to buy compost."

Karina also grows fruit and vegetables on an allotment – and dug up her garden to put in raised beds where she can grow food.

"There is so much pressure on land that there aren't enough allotments to go round all of West Bridgford but there is a lot you can do with just a few square metres of garden," she said.

"From May to October I also make fruit juice. I go foraging for berries."

Karina said when she couldn't find uses for household items, she also uses the Freecycle website and someone who can make use of it can collect it.