Archive for November, 2008

Roll up, Roll up – Tracey Smith wants all your rubbish questions.

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Roll up, Roll up – Tracey Smith wants all your rubbish questions.

While we’ve been sorting out our rubbish for our weekly weigh in, the lovely Tracey Smith is all set to help you reduce YOUR rubbish next week. Do you have a burning question about rubbish? Do you want to know how to reduce your waste? Do you want to live a more sustainable lifestyle? Do […]

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It could be a zero waste Christmas after all (well, next year maybe)

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It could be a zero waste Christmas after all (well, next year maybe)

It’s time to let go of your Wrap Rage, folks! Over on the fabulous ‘Aiming Low‘ blog, Katy ( who describes herself as a “sort-of-novice triathlete trying to minimise the waste she generates”) shared the exciting news that Amazon are working hard to reduce their ‘frustration packaging’. That’s unnecessary plastic, wire, clamshells (that hard plastic […]

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The perils of the British cuppa

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The perils of the British cuppa

Yesterday passed pretty uneventfully here at Chez Green. Little Miss Green woke herself up coughing, so down went the sage and garlic syrup (brave girl). She needs a large orange juice chaser to follow that one, but it’s a miracle worker that will have her restored in no time.

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Back from the bowels of my fridge

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Back from the bowels of my fridge

You may remember I had a joyless task to attend to on Friday. Well I’m proud to say, that with the motivational tones of Pat Benatar blasting out on the stereo ‘Hit me with your best shot’ I did the chore and cleaned out the fridge. There was nothing else scary lurking in there, the […]

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