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To many gardeners, snails are a perennial problem. All your vegetables are growing away nicely when suddenly you visit your plot only to find that an influx of slugs and snails has laid waste to much of your hard work (and future crop).
The knee-jerk reaction may be to [...]
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We all know about using local recyclincarrierg facilities to recycle objects such as paper, cardboard and tin cans. But I recently got thinking about whether certain other, less common items, can be recycled (or reused), and if so where.
So today I have tracked down four unusual ways to reduce the rubbish you [...]
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The concept of losing weight is a super-simple one. You simply need to consume less calories than you use up. Putting yourself into a deficit like this means your body will have to burn fat to give you the energy you need, and as a result you lose weight.
It all seems so [...]
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It’s a sad fact of life that no matter how hard we try, most of us still produce some rubbish each week. But had you considered that a number of common household waste items could be reused or recycled in your own garden to reduce the amount of rubbish you send to [...]
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Part of modern life these days, especially if you are part of the internet age (which I guess you are, if you’re reading this article!) is the use of search engines to find websites.
But have you ever considered that there might be greener alternatives to Google, Yahoo and Bing? Alternatives where you [...]
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Whilst the easiest way to make your mobile phone use greener would simply be to recycle it and not get a new one, few people (myself included) would be willing to do such a thing. So instead we need to find ways in [...]
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According to Flora And Fauna International 1,712 mobile phones per hour are replaced in the UK. The volume of landfill aside, mobile phones contain chemicals such as lead and cyanide which can leach into the soil causing serious problems.
So it’s clear that you should recycle your mobile phone rather than throw it [...]
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These days companies are starting to realize that they need to be greener. Whether this is due to a genuine desire by the management to lessen the effect of their company on the environment or a rather cynical attempt at some easy PR, the fact remains that many companies are currently [...]
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So you want to make a difference but you haven’t got much free time? No problem! Luckily you don’t have to spend half your life volunteering, walking everywhere and growing all your own food to reduce the effect you have on the planet.
Indeed, this site is all about finding ways to make [...]
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Whilst in today’s society asking the average person to stop using batteries altogether is unrealistic we also need to face up to the fact tat batteries present a considerable problem to us. Put into landfill at the end of their life, batteries may well leach out the toxic chemicals which they contain [...]
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