Archive for April, 2006
Friday, April 28th, 2006
What’s greener … baths or showers?
Ok, that sounds like a bit of a no-brainer but lets elaborate on it a bit:
What’s greener a bath - which allows the water to be recycled on the garden or into a grey water system - or a shower where the water just goes down the drain?
How about if the bath water is heated […]
15 Comments » - Posted in dilemmas by louisa
Thursday, April 27th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … excessive Easter egg packaging?
Unless you’re very good and don’t eat every scrap of chocolate as soon as it passes the threshold of your home, I think we’re about a week late on this one. But anyway…
Every year we ask people likely to buy us Easter eggs not to buy us Easter eggs but we still end up […]
8 Comments » - Posted in Easter, food and the like, items, packaging by louisa
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … toilet roll tubes?
Oh, I know. How very Blue Peter. Except we don’t have very much need for a model of Tracy Island.
We don’t use kitchen rolls that much so mostly have the shorter toilet roll-size tubes lying around the place.
Short of just recycling them in our green bin, what are the alternatives?
38 Comments » - Posted in bathroom, items, packaging by louisa
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … old socks?
John’s socks have a tendency to
a) stretch to about seven foot in length
b) go hard and strangely crunchy
c) go missing
Mine hole at the heel and toe, lose all elasticity around the ankle then drain of colour.
When they’ve gone past the not-even-on-washing-day-when-every-other-sock-is-dirty stage, we usually just throw them in the dirty rag bag for using when […]
33 Comments » - Posted in clothes and fabric, items by louisa
Monday, April 24th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … pistachio shells?
Oh lovely pistachio nuts. How sweet and salty your squishy insides are. How tough and protective your hard outsides are.
We’ve got a whole bowlful of the pistachio nut shells with no idea what to do with them.
We’re reluctant to just throw them on the compost heap because it seems such a waste to […]
