Recycling Mobile Phones

There are many companies that recycle mobile phones, whether it be for cash, for charity or for points that can be redeemed at your local supermarket. Recycling mobiles saves energy and conserves natural resources

Guest Post: Recycling in Norway

I have lived outside the UK for the whole of, as I call it, “the wake up age”.   When you turn from being an irresponsible adult into a proper adult.  Where you get it, being a parent, relationships, consideration, children, life, death, and of course the environment.   Where you start to take note of the [...]

Guest Post: Recycling in Garden Design

Many of us have made recycling part of our everyday lives. We now recycle cardboard, glass and plastic as a matter of routine, putting it out for collection with the rest of our rubbish without even thinking about it. Yet, have we extended the recycling which takes place in our homes out into our gardens? [...]

Your rubbish can save lives!

Passionate recyclers Richard (53), Rachelle (37) and Verona (9) Strauss are celebrating the success of their pioneering recycling scheme to dispose of crisp packets environmentally. They set up a recycling point in their local Tesco store to accept crisp wrappers which currently go to landfill. After three months the Strauss family collected more than 12,000 [...]

Eco Art Supplies

Although art is not a strong point in this house, we do have some crafty supplies here in case the kids do fancy a go at trying their hand at some art on the rainy days.  Here are a selection of eco art supplies. Cachet Earthbound Recycled Sketchbook – available from Art Discount, with prices [...]

Table Top Stainless Steel Compost Pail

This will make a welcome addition to any “green kitchen”; it is stylish yet practical.  It will help you collect and recycle food wastage with ease. Features include: carbon filters inside the lid to keep your kitchen odour free, a practical handle for carrying, it comes with 2 replacement carbon filters to keep you going, and is [...]

Goodies to make recycling easier

Brenda writes… One problem that faces people when recycling is storage of the recycled goods, so anything that makes life easier there is an essential in my book. The Can Crusher can be mounted on the wall and is very easy to use as all you need to do is pull it down and voila [...]

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