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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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 [...]
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 »
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How To: Get Started With Composting
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, tagged beat the credit crunch, composting, Downshifting, gardening, gardens, Get Started with Compost, Landfill, Leftovers, money saving tips, Phil Gamble, Recycling, Sustainable Living on 11 December 2008 | 7 Comments »
Recently, I featured a piece by horticultural expert, lecturer and all round nice bloke, Phil Gamble…
Today Phil explains the rudimentary basics of composting, how it works and what it does.
In my opinion, wintertime is the perfect time to get a compost heap going. There are so many delicious vegetables to fill up your plates and [...]
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 [...]
Who Would You Give the Landfill Prize to?
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish celebrities, tagged Carl Honoré, consumerism, Enough: Breaking Free From the World of More, John Naish, Landfill, Landfill Prize, waste on 23 October 2008 | 9 Comments »
[EDIT - HOT NEWS JUST RECEIVED FROM JOHN NAISH!]
I came across the Landfill Prize earlier this year whilst chatting to my good friend author Carl Honoré, who’d been signed up as a judge; incidentally, he’s also one of my celebrity case studies in the book.
The Landfill Prize was the brainchild of John Naish, author of another [...]
They’re Green Through and Through!
Posted in General rubbish, Household rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish activism, tagged beat the credit crunch, Ecover, Ethical Superstore, Landfill, marine life, money saving tips, More Eco, My Zero Waste, Neals Yard Remedies, Plastic, Recycling, reusable bags, Rubbish Diet, tetrapaks, Zero Waste Pledge on 18 August 2008 | 15 Comments »
The Green family are something else again!
Mr, Mrs and Little Miss Green are all passionate about the environment, so much so, they’ve breathed life into an inspirational website called ‘My Zero Waste’.
As well as entertaining and educating their readers about a wide range of rubbish flavoured topics, they are also gearing up for their ‘Zero [...]
Rubbish News – Market Traders Clean Up their Act
Posted in Food rubbish, Paper rubbish, Rubbish news, tagged Abdul Ullah, BBC, Landfill, London, Recycling, Rubbish, Tower Hamlets, Whitechapel Market on 14 August 2008 | 4 Comments »
A simple recycling initiative has been introduced at the historic market site of Whitechapel in London.
Tower Hamlets council have provided the bustling market with designated bins that take organic, cardboard and other packaging waste and they are emptied twice a day.
It is hoped this will reduce rubbish in the area by up to 88% and [...]
Rubbish Interviews – Kate McFarland
Posted in Food rubbish, Household rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish recipes, tagged Chickens, Energy From Waste, Fishcakes, Food Waste, Friends of the Earth, Johnny Depp, Kate McFarland, Landfill, Norfolk, Norfolk County Council, Plastic, Recycling, St Edmundsbury Borough Council, Zero Waste Week on 5 August 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s always good to hear viewpoints from ‘the other side’ and the inspirational Kate McFarland is now the Assistant Waste Partnership and Strategy Officer for Norfolk County Council.
In the book, she offers great insight to the ‘Zero Waste Week’ initiatives that are taking place around the country and in this extended interview, she gives up [...]
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