1 4 years ago

The community we live in now doesn’t recycle, so it’s kind of hard to keep up with it… 5 years ago

What a wonderful site, people giving items away for nothing? I was dubious but it seems to work. Especially with things which are big or itens you don’t want to take to the charity shop.

I even got rid of my faulty DVD player to someone who could fix it!

The slightly Tackier stuff I take to my local jumble sale.

It’s all recycling. 6 years ago

that people in flats can have recycling boxes for kerbside collection, I’ve got to ring the local council I’ll do that Monday.

• Newspapers and magazines
• Envelopes
• Junk mail & scrap paper
• Plastic bottles minus lids
• Food and drinks cans
• Cardboard, cards and card packaging
• Directories but not the yellow pages

• Cartons – milk or juice for example
• Glass (that really surprised me)
• Polystyrene
• Black sack of carrier bags
• Foil
• Plastic packaging

Anyway I’ll tell you more on Monday! 6 years ago

of all the recycling collection points in portsmouth the local Asda collects: glass, aluminium cans, steel cans, plastic and paper. That should do me for now. i’ll have to put everythind into different bags and carry them to the recycling point. 6 years ago

I have a huge problem with this with no kerbside collection and no car it’ll be hard to get the recyclable stuff to where the recycle containers are.

I do use the freecycle network; throw junk to the jumble sales or charity shops. But I still end up with too much rubbish in my bin each week.

My goal is to reduce the amount of rubbish by half by this time next year.! 6 years ago

A household carbon footprint is the quantity of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere as a result of energy use, transportation and waste disposal in one year.

My carbon footprint was estimated to be about 6 tonnes. To put that in perspective, if you drove a mid-size car 1.5 times around the world, it would emit roughly 20 tonnes of CO2.

Why not calculate your own carbon footprint? It’s a bit of an eye-opener.

Launch the carbon footprint calculator6 years ago