Kingfisher Cottage in 2020 Our attempt at a zero-waste build I was once told that 'there is no such thing as a zero waste build’. In 2020 we were faced with building our third home in 5 years. We were uneasy about the level of waste in our first two despite reassurances from the building company that waste was normal and unavoidable. Despite this we decided to ‘have a go’ at reducing waste and recycling as much as possible. Even if we couldn’t reach zero – we should certainly do better and learn something in the process. We certainly did learn a lot and we believe that everyone should have a go at this to some degree if they can! Background We live on just over 1.6 hectares of land. We had always planned to build a barn next to the cottage, but two years ago, my elderly mother started to need more support and we decided to build her a home on the platform next to Kingfisher Cottage. In November 2019 we signed a contract with the builder and we specified tha...