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 ...

November 2nd, 2007

Love Food Hate Waste

Apparently we waste up to a third of all food bought in the country. This campaign gives ideas ideas on how to reduce this waste. It has recipes, meal planners and tips on understand sell by and sell by dates. I have to admit we do waste food in our house hopefully it's not a third of a ...

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 ...

July 13th, 2006

Ban Beater

I got my Ban Beater this week. I was quite excited as it has taken quite a while to turn up. I think partly due to it's appearence on Gardeners World I imagine demand has probably been quite high. Anyway I was initially disappointed as I when I tried to set it up it didn't work. But yesterday I looked at the instructions, took ...

June 20th, 2006

WI Packaging Day of Action 20 June 2006

WI Packaging Day of Action 20 June 2006 - this completely passed me by today I just caught something about it on a local news this evening. The Womens Insitute are campaigning to reduce packaging and waste in general from supermarkets. It does bug me that you can buy organic produce from a supermarket but the produce is packed plastic that doesn't bio-degrade. Numbers of plastic bags that supermarkets ...

April 7th, 2006

How should I … shave?

How should I ... shave? - it was Leo Hickman in his book A Good Life, who gave the me the idea of going back to an old fashioned safety razor. I am very happy with this although putting a new blade in can lead to a bloody face, part of this I put down to relearning the art of shaving - ...

October 14th, 2005

Bottlesandcans.com :: California Department of Conservation

Bottlesandcans.com :: California Department of Conservation – If I lived in California I think I would find this quite useful. If I lived in the UK which I do I think this would probably be more my cup of tea!

September 10th, 2005

Water Two

Water Two – it’s a rubbish site but a handy gadget. I read here about using grey water to water your garden. I was intrigued about using bath water etc to water your garden. Then today I was looking on the Environment Agency website and came across Water Two which seems incredibly cheap, small and easy to use after some of the things I had ...