Showing posts with label reduce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reduce. Show all posts

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Reduce waste after Christmas - our top tips

Again is the big day almost upon us.


Hopefully you've been busy already Upcycling random stuff in Christmas presents and is easy to go to keep the green theme Christmas it recycled Christmas decorations.


Wait until you spring clean declutter now while all the new additions are fresh in your mind.


New-new in January sales, items that do not want or do not use, or it way, the sooner someone else will get some use out of it and it could keep old items which shiny replaced by something new - type sooner you having to buy gift shop.


Take not wrapping paper way - reuse it instead. Larger pieces can be flattened and reused (children especially notice the same paper used year for year), or in reusable paper bags gift.


Smaller pieces can be used, gift tags, festive envelopes or used to renew Christmas decorations for use next year.


Shredded to protect upholstery for gifts can be particularly crumpled piece to protect in the course of the year - or tender Christmas decorations while in the store, which brings me neatly Onto…


Save carefully removed and go every year - which means less waste capable of use on landfills and reducing your need to buy new stuff.


Shredded can gift wrapping and packaging (such as polystyrene foam advanced plastic shaped and formed) new toy or gadgets, to to protect sensitive items. Wrap tinsel and strings of Christmas to avoid the lights around a kitchen roll back tube or a plastic bottle clutter. Label fields so that you can easily find you.


If you have no room for the storage, not throw away decorations - pack neatly away and offer on Freecycle Freegle.


Also keep your favorite Christmas cards on the one hand - next year in recycled decorations to recycle or gift tags may be hidden in a decorations box-. Cutting others into narrow strips as shopping lists - use on the map easier than writing paper if you are traveling. Keep large cards for crafts - if you need any thin but strong map. There are many different ways to reuse them.


If you have can see many high street shops the reuse recycling collection bins specifically for cards - usually WH Smith, Tesco and M & S - often with a donation goes from memory related to charity (such as Woodland Trust) for each am cards collected. Some also collect cards for reuse/Upcycling in gift tags charity shops and the like - ask around to see that you included in your area.


A lot of energy went into growing birds carry around and cook it-so make the best of it, by up all meat left remaining and the camp of the carcass.


Use leftover veg, soup, making stews and Commons.


Use leftover Christmas cake, fruity rum truffle making - or take it outside for birds to eat.


If don't go to get through all your Christmas cookies or mince pies, be proactive about it before you to go stale - freeze some for later use (keep the Festival spirit all go January!) or give way to someone else - you could for free treated very thankful!


What are your favorite ways to reduce waste at Christmas?


View the original article here

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Green Halloween: How can I the amount of sweet / candy wrapping reduce?

Training in our Green Halloween series...


What with food safety issues and all the urban legends about razor blades & kovazg, are almost all trick-or-treat treats these days shop bought and individually wrapped - may be the worst way to eat candy or chocolate packaging waste, especially as it mostly of plastic wrapper that can be reused.


Do everything to minimize, give the height of the sweetie packaging- and collect?


What are the most reusable or recyclable options?


Is a way of reducing, of course, not to the whole trick or treating thing- but there are other alternatives?


And while we this long dim and distant past, each new reuse/Upcycling ideas for the wrapper - have assumed transparent ones shown in the image or opaque chocolate used ones on mini bars etc.?


View the original article here

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The last recommended reduce, reuse and recycling links

(mmm, alliteration)I love this simple, but can as a baking container and gift packaging in a cute eat baked gifts - with an old idea. I initially thought it was cookies/cookies would can it work well for those large - are straddling the line between the industrial of the get to protect lamps from old pipelines from crushed.These and looked like strange creatures, the PEAR preceding! Notes from the trenches is frugal part way through a "100 simple ways to save" round-up - lots of great ideas not only economical, encourage you to baskets, reduce how someone currently searches (part one; part two; part three part four) this basket from blue jeans tutorial - try list.Finally is definitely on my, check out of this table runners work by setting along age Decklein - very pretty.

(Photo by ChasingFireflies)

Categories: Links
Posted by Louisa 13 July 2010

View the Original article

Monday, July 5, 2010

How can I reduce the amount of energy I use cool keeping?

(A companion post use heating super tips to reduce energy costs, last October - in winter!)

After a few false starts, summer is definitely here in the UK now and it is the warmest for a few years it has (although not much say that is really).We're not really very hot or very cold weather - equipped because until we started, we regularly either get messing with the climate - air-con now is new jobs University events and places - offices, shops, cinemas, etc. to spielen.Menschen are increasingly small air con units buy for their homes, but generally more people just run to keep fans air circulate - both, of course, use electrical juice.

How do you keep cool yourself and your home and Office? what are to keep your favorite super tips for cool, without too much energy or water use? I expect that anyone who knows to stay well and not wear thick woolly jumpers scarves in the midday heat - but what you do?

Categories: reduce the
Posted by Louisa on 1 July 2010

View the Original article