Easy Ways to Save the World

May 4th, 2008

Compost Awareness Week May 4th - May 10th

If you read this site regularly you will know that compost is one of my favourite subjects. Next week is compost awareness week running from the 4th to the 10th of May. There are events going on all over the country and it is being supported by celebrity gardener Charlie Dimmock. In my opinion you can never have too much compost so if you ...

January 3rd, 2008

Woodland Trust’s Christmas Recycling

Happy New Year! If you trying to get rid of your Christmas Cards - don't put them out with the rubbish (unless you have a recycling bin) take give them to the Woodland Trust to recycle and convert into trees. They want to recycle 100 million cards and plant 24,000 trees. So finally ...

April 27th, 2007

Compost Awareness Week - Sunday 6th to Saturday 12th May 2007

Something that I think we all should be doing. It's easy once you have the composting bin. With all this talk about wasting food and reducing the waste going to landfill and the length of time between waste collections this is ...

October 8th, 2006

Bugged bins etc

I watched Real Story this week on the BBC. It was mainly about how local councils and people are dealing with their new recycling collections. Many people seem to think that it 's been a complete disaster. I think it is something that need to be done however painful. I'm sure if the same people who were shown complaining about the new systems found out that the council was ...

September 8th, 2006

New recycling system in Bournemouth

Our new recycling system is apparently now up and running - the main problem for me at the moment is I keep forgetting to put the bins out and that the 'big' bin that is used for the recycled stuff is almost full already and we haven't even put it out yet. Once we get sorted it out will make our lives a lot easier as will not having ...