Supermarket giant Tesco will no longer be giving Green Clubcard points for customers who have returned empty items to deposit in their recycling machines.
The machines are designed to take a variety of recyclable materials including plastic, tin and glass and are located in around 40 branches of the store throughout England and there’s one [...]
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Happy New Merry and The Great North Swim
Posted in Rubbish ideas, Rubbish news, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged Tracey Smith, NACOA, Charity, Great North Swim, Just Giving, Lake Windermere on 6 January 2009 | 9 Comments »
A-ha!
We’re here!
Happy New Year and all that associated malarkey .
I hope your Christmas break was filled with thoughts about how you could be more resourceful with the rubbish you found yourself wading through. If like me, you managed to miss the bin men, you’re probably still harbouring a stack of recycling for the good [...]
Nothin’ to See, Move Along Now…
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish activism, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged Letters for Change, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, Tracey Smith on 18 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
Morning all,
Just a shortie to let you know, there will be NO rubbish posting today – how rubbish is that!
It’s school play, carol service, mince pie making mayhem at the Smith Towers and I have to keep some sort of handle on my work/life balance you know…
Anyway, this is a perfect opportunity to poke you [...]
Rubbish on the Radio – 17th December 10am-1pm
Posted in General rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish Media, Rubbish news, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged Apple AM, Coldplay, Oasis, radio, The Killers, Tracey Smith, Van Morrison on 17 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘Tis midweek again – yippee!
My regular rubbish readers will know I broadcast a radio show called ‘Slow Down and Green Up’ on Apple every Wednesday, between 10am and 1pm (GMT).
How To: Organise Christmas Clothes Swap Party
Posted in Rubbish activism, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Sample pages, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged beat the credit crunch, Children's Toys Swap Party, Clothes Swap Party, Kids Clothes Swap Party, Letters for Change, money saving tips, Natural Collection, Swooshing on 15 December 2008 | 6 Comments »
Need a new LBD but money’s too tight to mention?
Then take my rubbish advice and squeeze in a quick Clothes Swap Party!
I was chatting to a batty friend over the weekend who informed me that her office Christmas do was coming up and that she had ‘absolutely nothing to wear sweetie!’
Now her definition nothing to [...]
WRAP Help Local Authorities Through the Economic Downturn
Posted in Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish news, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged Closed Loop Recycling, Environment Agency, Landfill, Liz Goodwin, Recycling, Rubbish, Rubbish Q&A Day, Waste and Resources Action Programme, WRAP on 5 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I thoroughly enjoyed my recent Rubbish Q&A Day here on the blog and thank you again for all of your thought provoking questions.
One particular question left me with strong concerns about the stockpiling of recyclable materials, in light of the blip on our economic landscape.
My research uncovered the plummet in the trading price of steel [...]
This ‘Woman’s Hour’ Has Arrived!
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged alcohol, BBC Radio, children's charity, dependence, Jenni Murray, Lauren Booth, NACOA, radio, Radio 4, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, The National Association for Children of Alcoholics, Tracey Smith, Woman's Hour on 3 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
Dearest all, I’m in London and currently looking out of a window onto the world and the clock is ticking along, getting ever closer to 1am – eek!
I had a call late yesterday from Radio 4 (as you do) asking if I could just whip up to Town and go do Woman’s Hour? Well, as [...]
Tracey reads from The Book of Rubbish Ideas
Posted in Rubbish movies, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged The Book of Rubbish Ideas, Tracey Smith on 27 November 2008 | 10 Comments »
The title says it all really! It’s a video of me reading from the ‘What a pile of rubbish’ section in The Book of Rubbish Ideas:
Rubbishly yours,
TSx
How To: Get Down and Dirty Together, Creating Community Soil
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged beat the credit crunch, Cannington College, Compost Outing, composting, gardening, gardens, Get Started with Compost, horticulture, Paul Atterbury, Phil Gamble, RHS Chelsea Flower Show, The Antiques RoadShow on 12 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘Bigger, better food is waiting in your compost heap.’
I recently caught up with a delightful man and a horticultural expert, Phil Gamble.
Trained at Cannington College, Somerset in it’s heyday, Philip’s background includes two posts as Head Gardener and ten years on the lecturing staff at Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester. He’s an established freelance lecturer and [...]
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