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Each One Really Does Count!

Posted in Electric rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish how-to's, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Rubbish Interview: With Danny Carnegie, creator of UK Aware

Posted in General rubbish, Household rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish how-to's, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 16 December 2008 | 6 Comments »

As the founder of UK AWARE, 33-year old Danny Carnegie takes comfort in his perception that he’s just an average Joe. He plays football once a week, he loves snowboarding, he never wears matching socks, he doesn’t enjoy going to weddings, he comes from a one parent family, he lives in a three bed semi [...]

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Wake Up and Freak Out!

Posted in Rubbish activism, Rubbish movies, tagged , , , on 26 November 2008 | 9 Comments »

A good friend sent me a link to a short film created by a very talented animator called Leo Murray.
It touched a raw nerve in me for many reasons.  I enjoyed the simplicity of the movie itself and the straightforward explanations of the problems we’re facing with climate change and I particularly connected with the [...]

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Click4Carbon’s Top Rubbish Tips

Posted in General rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish activism, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish news, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 30 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »

 
I had a lovely chat with a very busy and gorgeous Claire Russell, founder of the recently launched environmental website Click4Carbon, who were featured on Sky News earlier this week.
Here she talks about the concept behind her innovative website and explains why she believes those little things in life really can make a big difference [...]

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Dive Into Your Bins During Energy Saving Week

Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, Household rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish activism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Who are Alastair Sawday Publishing?

Posted in Rubbish activism, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 20 August 2008 | 3 Comments »

Hi everybody – this is Thomas and I thought I’d write today’s post to give Tracey a day off. I guess I’m what you would call the administrator/moderator of this blog but it is probably far more accurate to describe me as the guy who tweaks and fiddles with things and often stares at the [...]

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The Rubbish Solution’s in Transition

Posted in Rubbish activism, tagged , , , , , , , , on 1 August 2008 | 4 Comments »

So what is a Transition Town (village, city, forest or island for that matter)?

In their own words, it is: – “A community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: “For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?”

It sounds like a bit of a mouthful at first I know, but once you get your head around the concept it’s pretty straightforward and by heeding it’s recommendations, you can make an immediate and considerable difference to reducing your rubbish too!

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A Bit About the Book

Posted in Rubbish activism, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 28 July 2008 | 6 Comments »

So I went right through the house, room by room. I went inside and outside too, giving the garden, shed and garage a thorough prodding in the process, but it needed more. I had to explain why I felt we’d all arrived at ‘peak landfill point’ and despite many great, green initiatives, why there was still so much apparent apathy surrounding the issue of recycling and rubbish reduction in general.

The concepts I explored rolled over so many other topics and I suddenly found myself inadvertently writing a guide to solving credit crunch problems, combating addictions to shopaholism and even how to have better nookie by reducing ones levels of stress!

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