How to recycle at your optimum

There can be few people today that are completely oblivious to the importance of recycling. Environmental concerns are at an all-time high, with every trip to the petrol station reminding us how high the cost of living’s getting and of the problems caused by dwindling natural resources. How can we recycle? Most of us probably [...]

Recycling the UK’s Recycling Strategy

Its official, Recycling rates in the UK rose faster in the first decade of the Millenniums than in any other European country. Starting at a low point in 2001, with recycling rates at just 12% for municipal waste (domestic and urban solid waste for those not in the know), it increased by the greatest amount [...]

Recycle your Electronics the Green Way

Spring is on the horizon and with the season that brings new, fresh life to the natural world comes the desire to ‘spring clean’ our homes. Although here at TGF we are masters at recycling, this is not always the case when it comes to what to do with the electronic equipment that we have [...]

Guest Post: Recycling – Why should we care?

I’ve always tried to recycle since I can remember. When I was about 10 I distinctly remember watching a BBC News round piece on waste, and they showed overflowing landfills in the US then cut to scenes of people eating in MacDonald’s showing the food that was wasted at the end. Watching that I remembered [...]

Guest Post: Are the Neighbors Green With Envy Over Your Home?

Did you set any New Year’s resolutions as you rolled into 2013? If you did, would one of them perhaps be to live a greener life over the next 12 months? In the event that is the case, you may be surprised that it can all start right at home in more ways than one. [...]

Recycling Your Old Wardrobe

Whenever you make the decision to replace a piece of furniture with a new or more modern piece you will often have the difficult problem of offloading or finding a new use for the old piece. More and more people are replacing their free standing wardrobes with wardrobes with sliding doors. Unfortunately wardrobes can be [...]

A Business Without Paper

  A Business Without Paper? 2006 was the year the world woke up and began taking environmentalism seriously. The damage we have caused to our planet, as well as the depletion of its natural resources, has left us all on the brink of an ecological disaster we could have avoided with some perception. Whilst some [...]

Recycling for the resourceful: Alternative Uses for your Rubbish

When it comes to throwing stuff away, we Brits have proven ourselves to be pretty flipping good at it. It’s almost a shame they’re not holding some sort of rubbish discarding competition at the Olympics! Anyway, back on subject, in the financial year covering ’10 and ’11, over 10 million tonnes of waste was sent [...]

Could Your Family Be Recycling More Paper And Cardboard

It’s estimated that the typical British family throws a staggering six trees’ worth of paper in the household bin each week – with a colossal 12.5 million tonnes of cardboard and paper used each year in the UK. Could your family be doing more to recycle card and paper? And why should they be recycling? [...]

How to recycle your old computer

In this day and age, computers and laptops are an essential part of most people’s lives, even those who consider the environment – without a computer The Green Familia wouldn’t even exist in the blogsphere!! But just what do you do with your computer when it’s kicked the bucket? Technology naturally progresses and whether your [...]

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