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Trees are cut down, bricks are fired, metal is smelted; all to produce the building materials that go into a house. When a house is demolished, what happens to all this? By default, it all goes into landfill, never to be used again. It’s a terrible waste. In keeping with our green principles, we tried [...]

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As seen on the Madame Flavour teas website, describing how their special tea bags (“infuser pods”) can be recycled: Put several used infuser pods in the bottom of a hanging basket or pot, then put the soil over them. When you water the plant, the water is stored in the pods, a natural form of [...]

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It’s been interesting to see how little rubbish we’re producing in our new house. Now we’re no zero rubbish fanatics, but this is how much our regular rubbish is down to: Red bin (normal rubbish): 1/4 full each week (we actually didn’t put it out at all last week) Yellow bin (recycling): 1/4 – 1/3 [...]

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