Archive for May, 2006
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … drinks cans?
Aside from glass bottles then newspapers, one of the first things to hit my recycling radar was learning to tell the difference between steel and aluminium cans for recycling purposes. I think there was a Blue Peter Christmas appeal to collect aluminium cans or something, so for a good few months I watched with […]
9 Comments » - Posted in food and the like, items, kitchen, packaging by louisa
Monday, May 22nd, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … old mattresses?
A suggestion from the skip down the road:
“Hi, I’m the big yellow skip down the road that you keep eyeing up every time you walk past me. The people at the house next to me must be having a clear out or something but no, sorry, that cool chair that’s been in the garden […]
4 Comments » - Posted in household, items by louisa
Friday, May 19th, 2006
What’s greener … to buy local non-organic veg or ship in organic veg from around the world?
Most of the vegetable stalls at our local farmers’ market don’t advertise themselves as organic (possibly just because they’re not Soil Association-approved organic) - but most of the labelled organic veg in the supermarket has been shipped half way from Africa if not further afield.
I suspect this is a better-for-self versus better-for-planet question but I’m […]
4 Comments » - Posted in dilemmas by louisa
Thursday, May 18th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … coconut shells?
For reasons that seemed fun at the time, a few of years ago we halved and scooped out some coconuts. We clip-clopped up and down the street and around the house Monty Python style for a bit then the shells went in the cellar. There they stayed for a year or so then […]
5 Comments » - Posted in food and the like, items, packaging by louisa
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … old compact discs?
A few years ago, when everyone and their auntie was trying their luck during the ISP goldrush, we couldn’t open the front door for the amount of AOL cds coming through the letter box each morning.
Thankfully, it’s all slackened off a bit now but we still have stacks of old CDs to get rid of: […]
