Articles in Waste and recycling
Most people by now have heard of Freecycle.
The Freecycle concept birthed by Deron Beal in 2003, is all about keeping things from landfill and protecting the environment while helping people out and saving money.
If you …
In a bid to reduce landfill waste and save finite resources, we’ve been asked to only use reusable mugs and glasses for our “Change the World Wednesday” challenge.
For one week we have to refuse anything …
Let’s admit it; no matter how bad the credit crunch gets or how dark green we are, every girl likes to treat herself to new clothes from time to time.
This year I made a resolution. …
I’m thrilled to be sharing a guest post today. It’s written by Nicholas, who is a 16 year old student from Canada. He is passionate about the environment and aims at becoming an environmental engineer …
We’ve all heard about carbon footprints, but have you heard of a paper footprint?
One inspiring woman wants to show us all about our paper footprint with her travelling road show.
Mandy Haggith from Scotland has gathered …
A friend was recently lamenting that she wished we could recycle more plastic. Often they were left with plastic containers, trays and bottles that they could not get rid of.
While I sympathise to a certain …
For those who use jug filters for their drinking water but have the ‘is it ethical, sustainable and green to throw away all those cartridges?’ demons tormenting you, there is some good news! Brita ones …


