20 Hacks For Eco-Friendly Living (Without Spending Any Money)
1. Give up bottled water. Seriously, it’s so expensive and so unnecessary 2. Request your bills to be emailed to you to instead of posted to cut down on paper waste 3. Cold wash your clothes (unless you wore a…
The 10 Best Recycling Books 2019
10. Zero Waste: Simple Life Hacks to Drastically Reduce Your Trash We have a worldwide trash epidemic. What if there were a simple―and fun―way for you to make a difference? What if you could take charge of your own waste,…
The Best Eco-Friendly Beauty Products 2019
1. Make Up Remover Cloth Do away with disposable wipes and cotton pads, and remove even the toughest makeup using nothing but water. The microfibres swell to grab and hold the makeup, meaning no more money wasted on makeup remover.…
Green Gardening Tips for Spring
Plant With Consideration Soak the roots before planting, ensure that the hole is bigger than the root ball, and remember that plants like shrubs need a lot of breathing room to grow properly. Always be gentle with new plants, especially…
The Green Room: Episode 8 – The Problem With Plastic
The Green Room: What happens when you put two sustainability experts in a room and ask them about the plastic crisis? James and Nick spend the show debating the economics of plastics, the realities of plastic recycling, the…
15 Top Tips to Use Less Plastic (And Save Money)
To celebrate the latest episode of The Green Room, all about plastics and what we can do to reduce waste, we’ve put together some of the best and most simple ways to cut down your use of single-use plastics. Tips…
Tips for an Eco-Friendly Christmas
I’m Dreaming of a Green Christmas… Christmas is a time of excess, whether that be over-ordering from the Argos catalogue or Great Uncle Henry on the mulled wine, but with great excess comes great wastage. That’s why we thought it…
Is Wood Fibre Insulation Any Good?
Wood fibre insulation boards – they’re a different type of external wall insulation system than EPS or mineral wool, giving you even more choice when it comes to choosing the right materials for your project. Given that you may not have…
Plastic Roads: The Future of Plastic Bottle Recycling?
County Councils across the UK, the most recent being Enfield, have started a new recycling scheme to tackle the amount of plastic bottle waste that goes into landfill. The scheme entails recycling plastic bottles in order to use them as…
Powering London’s buses with coffee
Public transport has long been hailed as the ‘greener’ option, compared to travelling alone by car; but traditional buses produce serious carbon emissions. Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has been on a mission to make London’s buses greener, in a…