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| Dealing with Junk Mail (17 comments) After being quite vigilant on this for sometime, and joining every preference service there is and contacting insurers personally. I need to know what I can do when they dont honour my preference. Insurance companies still post there annual letter [...] |  john kennedy 2013-05-20 11:41:14 |
| Hard plastics recycling in the UK (10 comments) The video does not clearly address the total situation. Is CO2 emmission from road transport and plant processing taken account of? In other words, does the amount of CO2 produced in the total recycling process negate the value of recycling the plast [...] |  Glenn 2013-05-17 19:48:13 |
| From paper to pens; how to run a zero waste office (2 comments) I reuse my paper that I print on, and only recycle it or shred it when both sides have been used. Cartridges, I always send off somewhere to be recycled. [...] |  Julie Day 2013-05-14 11:04:49 |
| Recycle your inhalers! (11 comments) http://www.gsk.com/uk/consumers/complete-the-cycle.html Publicity from February 2013 including a search facility for your local participating chemist. [...] |  Jane 2013-04-23 13:15:23 |
| Mrs Green needs your help to avoid food waste! (7 comments) Some hams are definitely a lot saltier than others – bacon too. I used to buy a low salt bacon but hardly ever buy bacon and haven’t seen it recently anyway. We just don’t add salt and avoid ones we’ve found too salty. Those ham packets really i [...] | Jane 2013-04-20 09:20:32 |
| Success with the salty ham! (10 comments) Favourite indulgent pasta sauce is cream ham and mushrooms with ground black pepper – no salt because the ham is salty. Thicken with a little cornflour. I once had a pasta sauce from M&S that I had to add a more peas to – a whole large pocket [...] | Jane 2013-04-20 09:03:56 |
| Mysterious mayonnaise (11 comments) @Mrs Green: Better late than never, I suppose…. :-/ I finally posted my recipe! And then promptly changed my dinner plans to include oven fries and pesto aioli. The other ones people have posted looking really interesting, too! http://sustainable [...] |  Kate the Sustainable Princess 2013-04-19 22:05:50 |
| Talk (267 comments) http://positivenews.org.uk/2013/environment/12023/hero/ [...] |  Louisa Radice 2013-04-19 19:45:24 |
| How to Make Money From your Unwanted Household Items (2 comments) I do love a car boot sale for getting rid of lots of things I don’t want or need any longer. I used to sell lots of things on eBay too, but as others have said the fees are getting a bit on the expensive side now. I need to look into alternatives suc [...] |  Heather 2013-04-17 10:55:26 |
| 5 reuse ideas that will blow your mind… (11 comments) I grew up with so many of these ideas. (I’m 66.) We didn’t waste things simply because waste is wrong. My father collected smallish glass jars, nailed the lids to 1×2′s, hung the 1×2′s on the wall, and screwed the jars onto the lids. He sorted sc [...] |  linda williams 2013-03-28 01:37:13 |
| TerraCycle and Kraft Foods: Bringing Upcycling to UK Shores (9 comments) Hi there. You may not become eco-millionaires but you’ll have a lot of good will from those who vote Green Party. You should set up in Brighton. We have the only Green Party MP in the UK. I’m sure you’d have a warm welcome here. Best wishes |  Edward Campbell 2013-03-23 16:41:49 |
| How to recycle half used toiletries (31 comments) @Lori: Lpori – I would suggest trying a woman’s shelter. Alternatively, a basket in your work ladies room with ‘free to good home’ might also work (and be simple). At least the products are used up – but the waste is then in another person’s hand [...] |  SarahN 2013-03-21 05:10:39 |
| FAQs (23 comments) Hello 
I’m really sorry if the answer to this is on your site – I have searched through but can’t find it. I’m wondering if baking parchment paper can be recycled? The packaging does not day, but does state that it is coated with a silicone-ba [...] |  Mo Kendall 2013-03-02 20:04:26 |
| Zero waste baby (17 comments) Sorry, I meant BPA-free bottles! [...] |  Becky 2013-02-27 13:20:28 |
| Mrs Green’s half term challenge (12 comments) Great, and very timely, challenge – I’ve been having a meat-free month and seemed to be accumulating a lot of random veg! Here’s how I got on with the challenge this week: http://bikelightsinthefruitbowl.typepad.com/blog/2013/02/meat-free-2.html [...] |  Fiona 2013-02-19 16:33:42 |
| How to recycle hangers (24 comments) Just to update you- Tesco are no longer running their hanger recycling scheme. You can hand in old Tesco hangers to their clothing department for reuse, but they no longer have the bins for public donations of mixed hangers.( Interesting how they did [...] |  Monica 2013-02-18 12:10:36 |
| We Want Tap (24 comments) Some years ago I bought 3 ‘we want tap’ water bottles, cost £6 each, for myself and 2 grown-up daughters. I have been delighted with them, but find that they must be kept upright, otherwise they leak. Not quite sure whether the leak is coming fr [...] |  Bridget 2013-02-10 15:30:37 |
| 365 ways to reuse bread (10 comments) My tip is to save the old bread, dry it out then ferment it with sourdough starter to make Russian Kvass! [...] |  Jeremy Stocks 2013-02-06 13:45:03 |
| Seven ways to recycle your bra (16 comments) You can also recycle your bra’s at any of the Bravissimo stores. They have what they call ‘Bra banks’ which you can deposit your old bras into. The money they raise from bra recycling gets donated to the Eve appeal, which is a fantastic cause! I also [...] |  Paula 2013-02-05 17:22:30 |
| Help Mary recycle her plastic milk bottle tops locally (17 comments) @Caroline: only called Tesco following the suggestion made on G.H.S Recycling Ltd website as they “are looking for a national company who we could persuade to receive bags of bottle tops at their stores and bring them to somewhere in our area where w [...] |  Caroline 2013-01-29 14:08:25 |
| Response from BIC about recycling disposable razor blades (12 comments) Interesting read. I’ve gone electric with a recharbable battery, and keep a 5 o’clock shadow most of the time. No water waste which is the case with a disposable razor (these are hardly decent blades to begin with and nick up my face). The cost o [...] |  James 2013-01-29 08:31:27 |
| Reducing food waste with wartime rations? (12 comments) As an 80′s child, when even probably the poorest or poor had a diet made compared with what anybody was allowed to buy with rationing coupons, I’d say I’d have to boil the egg or make a bacon, egg, & cheese sandwich, while complaining afterwards [...] |  Joy Farmer 2013-01-20 07:09:28 |
| Recycle aluminium cans and make money! (8 comments) I want to recycle my used cans and make some money do scrap merchant dealers take baked bean cans? [...] |  Luke 2013-01-13 17:15:06 |
| plastic free cotton buds (Q Tips) (26 comments) @Jane: Well said! Cotton / paper cotton buds can be burnt or composted. Flushing them down the loo as so many people do wastes around 7 litres of water too. There’s clearly a number of makes of plastic free cotton buds on the market but what anno [...] |  Anna Pitt 2013-01-11 20:38:03 |
| Mrs Green goes dumpster diving (9 comments) Hi Mrs G, Just popped by to say hello. It seems one heck of an age since we last spoke. I’m going to bookmark you on my new toy (iPad – it was a gift!!!) and I’ll have no excuse not to come by again xx [...] |  Poppy 2013-01-11 14:31:11 |
| Would you like a bag? (36 comments) I am rarely without my ruck-sack and a couple of other ‘bags for life’, so I am constantly turning down offers of free shopping bags. What the hell am I supposed to do with them afterwards? I nip out to the local sandwich shop for lunch and buy on [...] |  Peter 2013-01-08 13:26:10 |
| Any ideas about recycling vinyl banners? (17 comments) I know this blog is over a year old but I thought this info is important. Many PVC vinyl banner materials use phthalates, lead, or cadmium in the creation of vinyl banners to make them flexible. Blockout vinyl banner materials have a center layer [...] |  Bryan 2013-01-06 00:02:17 |
| It’s starting to get serious (10 comments) Mrs. G – I came across your website in a search for eco-friendly TP and just wanted to say — this article had me completely hysterical. I also wanted to share with you the info that I’ve come across, which points to Seventh Generation 2-ply as being [...] |  Ashley 2013-01-05 00:34:57 |
| How to have a zero waste Christmas (5 comments) @sandy: Thanks Sandy; hope you had a lovely time too. And your tip has to be number 1 – if we don’t buy too much in the first place, there should be no problem with waste! @Jane: Love all your thoughts and observations, Jane. I think paper used to [...] |  Mrs Green 2012-12-31 11:52:19 |
| How to recycle chewing gum into bins! (4 comments) cool there is 1 in milton kyens [...] |  pop 2012-12-09 10:05:53 |
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Mrs Green needs your help to avoid food waste!