Village Underground is new charity supporting small new businesses, and is working with Tube Lines to recycle old London Underground carriages that have been in disuse for years. In August six old Jubilee line carriages were removed from sidings in Uxbridge and taken to Essex to be cleaned up and readied to be installed as …
PVC recyclers Shredtec are offering builders and window firms up to £70 per tonne for old PVC windowframes, and saving them approximately £42 per tonne in landfill fees. Here’s the lowdown from letsrecycle.com The news came as the Recovinyl scheme said the “first generation” of PVC windows is now reaching the end of its life. …
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Being an avid composter, this article by Marion Owen really appealed to me. From now on I will be composting wool socks, old leather gardening gloves, pencil shavings, toenail clippings, wooden toothpicks, stale bread, old pasta, dead bees and flies, and wee from my toddler’s potty. For the full list of 163 things, read Marion’s …
Our family car needs new back tyres and the quote from our local tyre dealership for a set of two run-of-the-mill type tyres was surprisingly expensive. My husband labours under the impression that retreads are of inferior quality and for that reason isn’t keen on us buying them, even though they would be an environmentally-friendly …
The 1,000,000th compost bin is being delivered in the UK this week, and to celebrate Recycle Now’s Compost at Home team and Waste Aware Scotland brought a bit of glitz and glamour to home composting in Trafalgar Square yesterday with a bit of help from Lea of Big Brother fame. 30 home composters were given …
It wasn’t good news for the environment when the only reprocessing plant dedicated to the recycling of Tetra Pak cartons in the UK was closed down this summer. But things are looking up as Tetra Pak moves into talks with a number of UK paper mills in an attempt to to reach a 10% recycling …
Water shortages are taking their toll on south-east England. The hosepipe ban over most of the area means lugging water-cans around the garden, and the drought order in some of the worst affected areas means no car washing. The old adage goes, “desperate times call for desperate measures”, but in this case it would be …
The Environment Agency claims that businesses that adopt green practices are saving UK industry upwards of £5 million every year. And while going green can save £££s, it also serves to enhance reputations with customers and investors, drives innovation and creates markets. In it’s Spotlight on Business report, the Environment Agency looks at what is …
EPEAT can help you identify high performance, environmentally friendly computer equipment via their searchable online database. The database will be available to the public from Monday, 24th July 2006, listing products that meet the tough new green computer standard for desktops, laptops and monitors. All EPEAT-registered computers have reduced levels of cadmium, lead, and mercury …