Day 58 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living: re-using and recycling paper begging letters.
Do you find yourself inundated with mail you haven’t asked for?
I do, especially as the end of financial and calendar years approach. Continue reading
Day 49 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living.
When you buy bread, does it come wrapped in a plastic bag?
For most of us, these days the answer is yes.
Unfortunately, those plastic bread bags are contributing to three big problems: Continue reading
Day 40 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living – dealing with all those soft plastic bags and wrappings.
Today was a gorgeous early autumn day, the perfect day for a walk.
Source: Gill King, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
Day 23 of 365 Days Of Low Carbon Living, where I repurpose a container instead of throwing it out to recycling.
Plenty of things we buy come in containers. Think food, health supplements, even chemicals.
What do you do with a container when you finish the contents? Continue reading
Are you (or your friends or family) 
throwing away valuable stuff and at the same time increasing greenhouse gas emissions?
This happens every time you put your kitchen leftovers and garden ‘waste’ into the general rubbish bin. (Did you know that over half of Australia’s household garbage is made up of food and garden waste?)
From your home, the contents of your rubbish bin Continue reading