Imagine you could turn 30 per cent of your household waste, at no cost, into high-quality compost for your plants, while also reducing toxic emissions from incinerator plants...
… | 1st February 2005 Ethical Living Compost Waste Kitchen Waste Garden Worms Composting Community … Compost Rubbish Decomposition Household Waste Composter Green Lifestyle Composting …
The government classifies household paint as hazardous waste. For a toxic-free zone, use natural paint instead.
… classifies household paint as hazardous waste. For a toxic-free zone, use natural … cent increased risk of contracting cancer. Wasteful production For every tonne of synthetic paint produced, 10 tonnes of waste are created. With speciality paints, as …
Do you want the best for your baby, but don’t want to harm the environment? Then use reusable nappies. Contrary to popular belief, modern reusables are cheaper and more hygienic than disposables, and you won't have to spend hours cleaning them.
… Diapers Reus Landfill Baby Toddlers Community Waste Nappy Schemes Reusables Reusable Nappies … they now form 4 per cent of all household waste, costing the taxpayer £40m each year to … each year add one million tonnes of nappy waste to our already overfull landfill sites. …
For aesthetic and ethical reasons, salvaged timber is the best.
… of a very high quality, this is a criminal waste of a precious resource. Increasingly, … local authority. Some authorities separate waste timber and allow people to help …
Undeterred by a series of terrifying accidents, the Bush administration is pushing ahead with its potentially apocalyptic biological weapons programme.
… more than 2,000 tons of hazardous biological waste in Maryland, much of it undocumented … about lack of transparency and monetary waste aside, the Bush administration's … US Concerns about transparency and monetary waste aside, the Bush administration's …
A staggering 30-40 per cent of the water we use in our homes is for flushing the loo. That works out at two baths worth of water per day for the average family. Yet by taking a few simple steps or swapping your old toilet for an ‘eco-loo’, you can minimise your water usage, and save money too.
… controls. They also allow you to recycle your waste for use around the garden as plant … full-flush systems that automatically deposit waste into a composting chamber. All are …
Starved of funding by the US embargo and the Soviet Union's collapse, Cuba has a health service to put its rich northern enemy to shame. Much of the responsibility for this medical miracle is due to the island's transformation into a model of environmental
good practice
… system that manages resources, eliminates waste and remains free to everyone, and which … or otherwise. Absolutely nothing goes to waste. To environmentalists the Cubans are … damage, a world in which politicians waste millions on electioneering alone and in …
Are SUVs a crime against civilisation, or paragons of efficiency? Are they ugly, arrogant and antisocial, or bright, beautiful and mobile? And do the polar passions they arouse pit the politics of envy against the Americanisation of British culture? Paul Kingsnorth and Michael Harvey discuss
… that dares speak its name. And it’s such a waste of time and effort. If you want to save … unnecessary plane journeys, household energy waste, over-consumption and more. Bitterly … has been going wrong. Dangerous, arrogantly wasteful, pointless, irresponsible and …
According to a Mori poll in March 2004, the fairtrade mark is now recognised by 39 per cent of the British public, up from 11 per cent five years ago. But what difference does fairtrade actually make to the lives of the producers? John Atkin looks at the Nicaraguan community of La Pita who sell half of their coffee on the fairtrade market
… putrid stench of rotting goods and industrial waste. Over a thousand people, many of them …
A Cumbrian company’s wool insulation can help you cut your fuel bills, reduce your
contribution to climate change and help struggling hill farmers, too
… Cumbrian highland sheep was simply going to waste. This led her and business partner David …
Churches turned into pubs. Brooding Victorian warehouses replaced with sparkly identikit apartments. Family shops and independent cafes bankrupted by Starbucks, Tesco’s et al. When will we wake up to this grim, placeless reality?
… seen. Where once there was a long strip of ‘waste’ ground, there is now a building site, …
Having an allotment is no longer a tiresome hobby practised by old geezers in wellies and donkey jackets. It’s an insurance policy against an uncertain future, as Paul Kingsnorth has found out for himself over the last three years.
… allotmenteering. Suddenly it seems a crime to waste any of my precious crops, so I’ve had to … out of skips. It’s free, it cuts down on waste and it’s also quite entertaining. It’s …
After more than 20 years work, Mike Hands, a British tropical ecologist has come up with a groundbreaking way to stop vast areas of rainforest destroyed
… up by the crops; the rest of it was being wasted - washed out of the soil by rain. …