From the category archives:

Recycling

Eco answers

November 20, 2008

How environmentally-damaging is your cycle ride to work? How long will it take a home wind turbine to pay for itself? The New Scientist knows.

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Water recycling… extreme

November 14, 2008

Nasa is putting the rest of us to shame. I think we’re pretty good at conserving water at home, but it works on a whole different scale when you’re in orbit.

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Recycle your Christmas cards

January 6, 2008

Tonight is 12th night, so it’s time to take down your decorations and cards. That leaves you with the question of what to do with all those greetings now the festive season is over.
In theory you could drop them into your cardboard recycling bag, but it would be far better to have them recycled by [...]

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Recycling too far

November 23, 2007

I’m all for reusing where possible, and grey water is a big waste area, but I don’t think I could bring myself to organise the plot’s water requirements along the lines suggested by this book.
I found it in Foyles at lunchtime and it’s very comprehensive, even going to great lengths to explain the kind of [...]

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Recycled furniture

April 5, 2007

I discovered at the weekend that you don’t have to buy from eBay to get your hands on recycled furniture. You can actually buy recycled new.
On a trip to Braintree to buy a new mattress for the spare bed (the last one got thrown out after eight years’ use and a further year of being [...]

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Money for mobiles

February 15, 2007

Like 10m other Brits did last year, I’ve just upgraded my phone. Partly it was because I wanted a new handset, but primarily it was because Orange was offering a better deal than Vodafone, and it would save me money to switch.
In the end I stayed where I was, as they matched the deal, but [...]

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Batteries and the environment

February 12, 2007

I arrived at work this morning to find my mouse out of action. It’s wireless, so doubtless far more wasteful than a cable-connected pointer, what with the need for the transmitting and receiving parts, and a whole second element plugged into the back of my Mac. Fortunately I don’t feel too guilty about that, as [...]

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How to get a discount at Starbucks

February 2, 2007

We’re pretty good at doing green in the office. All our waste paper is recycled, of course, and in 2006 we sent 28,160 kg of paper that way, saving the equivalent of 341 trees and 118,300 kWh of energy. Whether those trees were bonsai or giant sequoia, I don’t know, but we did win an [...]

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