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Recycle: The Essential Guide is the indispensable handbook to recycling today, tackling everything from the urgency of resource depletion on a global scale to what the individual reader can do to reduce waste in their own home.

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How to make a wormery for super rich compost

Whether you’ve got a large acre garden or a small city patio, you can turn you unwanted food and waste into the perfect organic fertiliser for potted plants, windowsill herbs, veg garden or allotments.

Composting and wormeries are ideal for generating new stuff out of old and can really help in cutting down the amount of waste that goes to landfill. But let’s begin at the beginning: What is a wormery?

How to harvest rain water

Did you know that some older toilets can use up to 14litres of water every flush and a running tap drains away 6 litres of water a minute?

Becoming aware of your water usage and taking steps to reduce it will not only lessen your impact on the world, you will feel it in your wallet and reduce your carbon footprint. Heating your household water accounts for 25% of your home energy consumption!

Water Saving Week, now it its second year runs between 12th to 18th June and is an ideal time to fix leaky taps and resolve waste water issues.

Swap your plastic bag for a Turtlebag

Every year, across the globe, we humans get through 1,000,000,000,000 – that’s one trillion – plastic bags. And to add to that horror, each bag takes up to 1,000 years to break down. So in a bid to get our shopping home, or across country, without increasing our waste, TurtleBags have developed a novel way of looking good while saving turtles at the same time. As featured in Vogue.

The fun theory! What’s your idea?

Fun can change peoples behaviour for the better! Whether turning a staircase into a piano to encourage people to use the stairs instead of the escalator, or making a bottle bank into an arcade game, people all over the world are creating inventive ways of making drab activities fun…

7 tips to creating compost

Composting is the alchemical process of turning waste materials into nutrient rich food for your garden, saving you money and protecting your local environment. According to Monty Don, “Not only does compost create a valuable resource, it is also the best way to solve the growing problem of landfill. Every gardener should make compost today!”

Recycle your milk bottle tops

Local recyclers are turning tonnes of milk bottle tops into cash for charity. Your semi-skimmed green top could end up as next year’s garden furniture. Melanie Rees at The Green Centre, has been collecting bottle tops for 3 years. Rees, and her team of volunteers have amassed 2 tonnes so far, and are raising money for Lupus UK.