Every month millions of mobile phone handsets in perfectly good, working condition are discarded and sent to Britain’s growing landfills as mobile phone fashions come and go.
Eco-conscious shoppers everywhere might be interested in Purple Gossip, a new website offering a wide range of recycled phones and accessories. Not only can you get your hands on [...]
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Are You Ready For a Little Purple Gossip?
Posted in Electric rubbish, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish news, Rubbish products, tagged beat the credit crunch, Gartner study, Landfill, Purple Gossip, recycled mobile phones, SIM cards on 4 March 2009 | 5 Comments »
Each One Really Does Count!
Posted in Electric rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish how-to's, tagged Climate Change, Landfill, NACOA, Recycling on 25 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m heading up to the big smoke on Monday, by train of course, to meet the guys at Each One Counts.
They run an on-line collection programme for mobile phones and ink jet cartridges and re-manufacture new cartridges for resale.
They also work in conjunction with a collective of charities including Battersea Dog and Cats Home, Cambodia [...]
Your Rubbish Mission, Should You Choose to Accept it…
Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, General rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish activism, tagged carbon footprint, composting, eco-education, gardening, Get Started with Compost, Landfill, Leftovers, Love Food Hate Waste, Plastic, Zero Waste Week on 12 December 2008 | 3 Comments »
Is to take part in my rubbish poll – please click below for the rest of the questions!
Rubbish Q&A Day
Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, General rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish Q&A, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish products, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged ACLM, aluminium cans, Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation, Alupro, Association for Contact Lens Manufacturers, Association for Organics Recycling, beat the credit crunch, Bokashi composting, carborexics, cardboard, cellophane wrappers, Click4Carbon, Community, community projects, composting, contact lens, cornstarch bottles, DEFRA, Dig For Victory, Dollond & Aitchison, eco-education, Eco-Schools, European Tissue Symposium, Freecycle, Get Started with Compost, glass jars, incineration, Jamie Oliver, Janey Lee Grace, Junkk, Junkk.com, knitting, Knitting Help, Letters for Change, making your own clothes, oestrogen soup, organic cotton, Organic-ally, Original Organics, Patient’s Returned Medicine Scheme, pet litter, Plastic, Polymer Recycling, Recycle, Recycle Now, Recycling, Recycling Expert, recycling video tape, SCRIB, Specsavers, Steel Can Recycling Information Bureau, steel cans, sustainable family, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, The Composting Association, The Rubbish Diet, The Times, Tracey Smith, University recycling schemes, unwanted medicine, vacuum bags, VeggiePets.com, Vision Aid Overseas, W. F. Denny, Waste and Resources Action Programme, Wellway Pharmacy, WRAP, YouTube on 10 November 2008 | 15 Comments »
A quick note from Thomas:
Hi everybody and welcome to the first Book of Rubbish Ideas Q&A day. Anybody out there who wants to leave Tracey a rubbish and sustainable living related questions may do so by leaving a comment under this post and Tracey will then get busy finding an answer for you. So [...]
Dive Into Your Bins During Energy Saving Week
Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, Household rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish activism, tagged B & Q, Boots, BSM, Climate Change, Comet, composting, energy, energy saving clock, energy saving light bulbs, Energy Saving Trust, Energy Saving Week, money saving tips, PG Tips, RAC, Recycling on 21 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This year’s Energy Saving Week is being celebrated right now, between the 20th and 26th October. 2008.
Energy Saving Week is designed to promote positive action among householders through a concentrated programme of events across the UK, via a range of partner organisations and the Energy Saving Trust’s network of regional advice centres.
The aim is to [...]
Spend a Few Pounds, Save a Few Pounds More
Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish products, tagged A Vogel, beat the credit crunch, Dryer Balls, Freeloader, Logmaker, money saving tips, Nigel's Eco Store, rechargeable batteries, Smart Planet, Solar Technology, sprouting seeds, Suck UK, Sun Jars, Tobias Wong, Uniross on 19 September 2008 | 5 Comments »
There are lots of ways to reduce the size of your bin without incurring any cost whatsoever.
For example, if it’s a composter you’re after, you could always knock something together from a couple of old pallets, which are readily available on many industrial estates if you ask nicely.
But there are also many items that require [...]
Sample pages – Study (and the book’s been released!)
Posted in Electric rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Sample pages, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged Christmas cards, crafts, office equipment, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, waste collection, WEEE on 10 September 2008 | 6 Comments »
Hi everybody
I thought I’d use today’s post to formally announce the release of The Book of Rubbish Ideas. It will start hitting the shelves today and you should start to hear more about it in the press. You can also now purchase it online here.
Thank you to everybody for showing so much support, both on and [...]
Rubbish News – ‘Your Old Computers are Making Us Ill’
Posted in Electric rubbish, Household rubbish, Rubbish movies, Rubbish news, tagged Accra, BBC, China, E-waste, Ghana, India, WEEE Directive, Will Ross on 13 August 2008 | 5 Comments »
This comes from youngsters in Ghana’s capital, Accra, where thousands of tonnes of old computers and other assorted e-waste, is being dumped.
Many of the scrap parts from these old machines are saleable and metals like copper can fetch good prices, unfortunately the computer shells are commonly burned to extract them.
Burning exposes those trying to collect [...]
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