Mrs Green
I am a long time supporter of the Green and Sustainable lifestyle. After being caught in the Boscastle floods in 2004, our family begun a journey to respect and promote the importance of Earth's fragile ecosystem, that focussed on reducing waste. Inspired by the beauty and resourcefulness of this wonderful planet, I have published numerous magazine articles on green issues and the author of four books.
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Reduce paper usage with paper free bills
According to research done by Mandy Haggith; author of “Paper Trails“, the average person throws away 250kg of paper per year. It is made up of junk mail, toilet rolls, magazines, receipts and other paper goods. One simple thing you can do to reduce your paper footprint is to say no to paper bills. If […]
Reduce food waste with Count On It labels
I received some labels from Lyndsey at Count on It this week. Lyndsey found our site one day when I was having a bit of a todo over an emergency food waste prevention week. If you remember, I’d opened my fridge to find lots of half used foods which were in desperate need of rehoming […]
Further steps to reducing your household waste
If you’re already doing a lot of recycling and your household waste is reducing nicely, here are our top ten tips for doing a little bit more. There’s no need for overwhelm; just pick one suggestion and try it for a week. If it works for you, add another one! Remember, lots of people taking […]
Beginners tips for reducing household waste
If you’re new to our site or just beginning to reduce your household waste, then this is the page for you! If you’ve made the decision to reduce your waste by reusing, recycling and composting as much as you can, where do you start? Here are our top ten tips for reducing household waste! 1- […]
Recycling for pros!
We have many readers who have made huge reductions to the amount of landfill waste they create already. Our belief is that there is always more you can do. Here are ten suggestions and we’d love to hear yours! 1- Help your community to recycle more. Perhaps you live near an elderly person who finds […]
Mr Green gets a wooden leg
He’s always been a bit of a Robinson Crusoe on the quiet, and this week Mr Green surpassed himself. We had a poorly patio chair – you’ll find out how it met its fate in the video. Suffice to say, we’ve had a three legged patio chair for some time now. We’ve been wondering what […]
Is swine flu advise (creating) a load of rubbish?
Did you all get your Department of Health 10 page, glossy swine ‘flu leaflet through the door last week? We had ours on Friday. Although we have opted out of Royal Mail’s door-to-door service using JunkBuster, we are not immune from the leaflets the Government see as ‘essential’ for telling us about it would seem. […]
Food waste Friday
It’s food waste Friday! This week we have some pesky salad again; which I found limping about in the bottom of the fridge. It’s about 1/5 salad bags worth, which will provide some good, rich green stuff for the compost bin. You will, however, be joyous to hear that, inspired by some of you lovely […]
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