The boys at Rapanui are back again with an expansion on their successful competition of 2008 to source up-and-coming designers. For their 2010 Collection, due for release this summer, the lads have made entries available to all.
Mart and Rob were inspired to open the doors to the Rapanui design studio after appointing Eve Ottaway; a [...]
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Rapanui Clothing Launches 2009 Graphic Art Competition
Posted in Rubbish news, Rubbish products, tagged competition, organic cotton, Rapanui Clothing, renewable energy, sustainable business awards on 31 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
Take a Natural Approach to Hayfever Protection
Posted in Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish news, Rubbish products, tagged aloe vera jiuce, anti-histamine, hayfever cure, Mother Nature, organic nasya nasal oil, Pukka Herbs, Sebastian Pole on 28 February 2009 | 2 Comments »
Spring can be a particularly difficult time for hayfever sufferers (me included) but organic herbal expert, Pukka Herbs, believes the symptoms can be avoided with the use of natural remedies.
I’m going to give their recommendations a try, as every summer I seem to find myself with a collection of boxes and bottles of product claiming [...]
A Bagging Update
Posted in Household rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish products, tagged Charity Shop, craft group, Morsbags, RSPCA, sewing on 13 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hi all, Only a shortie, it’s been a busy week here in the Smith Word Shed…
Friday morning I got together with my Crafty Group and we made our first batch of Morsbags!
I found a fabulous blue and white throw in the RSPCA charity shop that set me back the princely sum of £1.50!
We turned [...]
Got the Sniffles? Ditch a’Tissue….(bless you)…
Posted in Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish products, tagged handkerchief, money saving tips, organic cotton, Organic-ally, Sustainable Living, the common cold, tissues on 19 January 2009 | 16 Comments »
It’s that time of year again.
Actually, in my house, it’s been ‘that’ time of year since the kids broke up for their Christmas holidays!
There have been more coughs and colds going around the village than you could shake a snotty stick at and I’ve been rather dismayed to see one too many empty plastic wrappers [...]
Have Yourself a Rubbish Little Christmas!
Posted in Rubbish products, tagged Alastair Sawday Publishing, animal adoption, Cheque Book of Promises, Christmas, Christmas presents, digital editions, eBay, Exact Editions, Farm Animal Rescue, gifts, Green Eyed Frog, Natural History Museum, Permaculture Magazine, recycled albums, recycled gifts, Recycled Products Guide, recycled vinyl, Resurgence, RPG, Rubbish Bags shoulder bags, The Ecologist, The Green Parent, vinyl, Waste and Resources Action Programme, Wooden Eco Paper Seedling Potter, WRAP on 1 December 2008 | 10 Comments »
Oh boy.
I’ve relented.
It’s December and I’ve finally come around to the idea of thinking about Christmas.
It’s not that I don’t like it; on the contrary, Christmas time is great. I just cannot stomach all the hype and perpetual consumer pressure that seems to start bearing down on us from about mid-October.
Anyway, over the weekend I [...]
Rubbish Interviews: We’re Only Making Plans for Nigel (‘s Eco Store)
Posted in Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish products, tagged beat the credit crunch, carbon footprint, Christmas, Christmas shopping, Credit Crunch, eco retailers, Eco-Design Fair, energy saving products, environmentally friendly products, Nigel Berman, Nigel's Eco Store, organic products, recycled products, XTC, [re]design on 18 November 2008 | 4 Comments »
On a completely unrelated side note, for those of you too young to remember, the above was a fantastic song by XTC.
Back to business: Today I’m talking ’shopping’. Eek, shopping? Yes, well, I’m not a complete non-consumer you know, but I am very selective.
Nigel’s Eco Store is an award winning online retailer of environmentally friendly products I [...]
Ban The Plastic Bag
Posted in Plastic rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish products, tagged Alastair Sawday Publishing, Ban The Plastic Bag, Fragile Earth, marine life, Modbury, plastic bags, Rebecca Hosking on 14 November 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hi everybody, Thomas here. Are you a bit like me and are still dumbfounded by the sight of people carrying their shopping in plastic bags? That in this day and age, people are still using plastic bags despite being aware of the havoc they cause to the environment? I must confess, it is similar to [...]
It’s Quite Simply a Natural Matter
Posted in Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish activism, Rubbish products, tagged alternative, complimentary health, complimentary therapists, Cornwall, Devon, eco retailers, Fleur Churchill, green entrepreneurs, Natural Matters, plastic bags, Totnes, veg box on 11 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Natural Matters was launched in 2005 and from slow beginnings has now grown to be a leading UK resource for people looking to live more naturally in everything they do.
From green living to complementary practitioners and everything in between, the site is a one stop web portal that visitors find themselves returning to time and [...]
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 [...]
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