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 new campaign to convince manufacturers to clean up their act. They’re targeting gamers, the people …
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 ended up with a striking chandelier. He collected 1800 confiscated plastic water bottles from Stansted …
Here you are folks, a random assortment of things you can make for people you love. Things that are better than things you can get in shops because: a) they’ve been made locally, b) they’ve not cost you much, and c) they’re made with love. If you’ve taken the pledge to buy handmade this xmas, …
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Not the environmentalist’s favourite retailer by a long stretch, Tesco seems to be making a real effort to appear green. The green pound is the new holy grail for supermarkets, and Tesco isn’t planning to stand back and miss out on all the green back action. Their latest initiative is to reward people who recycle …
A comedic look at how janitors feel about office workers who can’t be bothered to recycle. From the wonderful Nature Conservancy. Adendum: Having only ever once watched an episode of Scrubbs, I completely missed that this was the grumpy janitor from that series, and that it was a hospital and not an office. Thank you …
I’ve come across a loads of people who just aren’t into recycling. You ask them why and they’ll have reasons ranging from, “there’s so much waste being produced that what I can do won’t even make a dent in it”, to “recycling is far more expensive than landfilling”. While this blog post is unlikely to …
There’s good news for Londoners wishing to recycle their old light bulbs, both incandescent and energy saving. Ryness Lighting and Electrical have taken it upon themselves to educate London residents about the dangers of not disposing of light bulbs safely. Currently the majority of used light bulbs go to landfill sites, where glass and metal …
Switching to low energy bulbs is the right thing to do. It saves energy and it saves money on electricity. The tricky thing is, what to do with the old light bulbs that you’ve removed. It seems terribly wasteful to be throwing working light bulbs into the bin. Why throw anything in the bin if …
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It’s day 7 of the EcoStreet go green challenge! You’ve done a week of the challenge and reached the half-way mark. Today we are challenging you to join Freecycle. It is a network of recycling communities all over the world. Wherever you are there’s likely to be a group going in your area, sign up …