Waste and recycling

Putting wasted food in landfill produces methane. Composting cooked food at home isn’t always practical. Here’s one solution that might surprise you!

This week we’ve been asked to do something to reduce our carbon footprint that is giving me nightmares…

Can you help Petunia GreenBeans recycle? She’s asking for your help and I know you have some tips to share!

About 21 billion items (550,000 tonnes) of junk mail are sent out every year in the UK; find out how to stop it at source to help save trees and energy.

If you only do one thing today towards a greener future, take this simple step to reduce paper waste.

Find out how you can reduce the amount of packaging you bring home from the shops.

Reuse and recycle waste, and compost food waste to reduce the rubbish destined for landfill sites.

Environmental issues are prevalent in the news. Our landfill sites are responsible for a third of all ground water pollution and they produce large quantities of methane gas, which contributes to global warming. In turn this leads to dramatic climatic events. We are becoming perilously close to an environmental catastrophe – if you need any…

One of the first ‘green’ things I did on my eco friendly journey was set up our local Freecycle group. The idea of matching people with items they no longer want to people who need them seemed to make perfect sense. It’s a win-win for individuals, communities and helps prevent landfill waste. There were many…