Harness your creativity to make something useful and keep something else out of landfill. I like the idea of making unique pieces of furniture for my home, and I like not having to pay (or paying very little) for materials… Read More »Eco-DIY: make a chair
I like to read, it’s one of my favourite methods of relaxation, and I get through lots of books. But buying lots of new books is expensive, and it can be damaging to the environment. All those trees being cut… Read More »5 ways for bookworms to save trees
The 2012 Olympics have been billed as the greenest so far, with plenty of critics saying that that’s still just not green enough. Here’s some information from the source article explaining how recycling is happening on the Olympic village building… Read More »95% of the materials recovered from the nine-month long demolition phase of the London 2012 Olympic site are being recycled on site
New York City born artist Virginia Fleck has discovered a new use for plastic bags that would otherwise end up in the bin. She’s creating beautiful mandalas, and has been so successful with them that she has recently completed a… Read More »Plastic bag recycling goes spiritual
‘Jungle celebrity’ and avid recycler Anna Ryder Richardson has joined forces with Recycle now to launch 2008’s annual Woodland Trust Christmas Card Recycling Scheme. A target of 100 million cards has been set by the Woodland Trust and Recycle Now,… Read More »Plant trees and reduce landfill by recycling your Christmas cards
On Christmas day what are you going to do with all that wrapping paper? Recycle it? Great. What about the cards? Give them a week or so and recycle those too, or maybe hang on to them for a year… Read More »Eco-friendly Christmas day craft activity
Ed Byrne- Recycle Now! – Funny videos are here Funny man Ed Byrne extols the benefits of recycling at Christmas time, when many of us let our excesses run away with us.
Games consoles have featured on thousands of letters to Santa this year, replacing many older consoles that will end up in the mountains of e-waste that are growing by the day. Now Greenpeace is pitting console against console in their… Read More »Clash of the consoles
What do you get when you take a product of our fear of terrorism, cut a bit off and tumble it around in a cement mixer with some sand, and then add some creative magic? Stuart Haygarth tried it and… Read More »Fancy a drop?