Recycle regularly

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

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.

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!

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.

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.!

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 calculator