Upcycling Old Clothing Into Useful Household Items
Upcycling Old Clothing Into Useful Household Items At a Glance Aspect Details Waste Diverted 35 items per year from general waste Cost Impact Saves £50-150 per year on household items…
Rapanui and the Isle of Wight Company Making Clothes From Recycled Bottles
Rapanui and the Isle of Wight Company Making Clothes From Recycled Bottles At a Glance Aspect Details Founded 2008 on the Isle of Wight Bottles Recycled Over 500,000 plastic bottles…
Sustainable Gifts for Kids That Aren’t Made of Plastic and Still Get Played With
Sustainable Gifts for Kids That Aren’t Made of Plastic and Still Get Played With: At a Glance Aspect Details Environmental Impact Avoids adding to 90% of plastic toys in landfill…
Wrapping Gifts Without Wrapping Paper and the Alternatives That Look Better
Wrapping Gifts Without Wrapping Paper At a Glance Aspect Details Annual Waste Avoided Up to 227,000 miles of wrapping paper nationwide Cost Impact Saves £15-40 per household annually Setup Cost…
Reusable Produce Bags and Storage and the Kit That Replaces Single Use Plastic
Reusable Produce Bags At a Glance Aspect Details Plastic Bags Replaced Hundreds over lifetime Initial Cost £15-30 for complete kit Annual Savings £10-20 (mainly from reduced waste) Lifespan 3-5 years…
The Pros and Cons of Eco Tourism and Whether It Actually Helps or Just Makes Us Feel Better
Eco Tourism At a Glance Aspect Details Global Tourism Emissions 4.5 billion tonnes CO2e in 2013, rising to projected 6.5 billion by 2025 Share of Global Emissions About 8% of…
Community Supported Agriculture and How CSA Boxes Work in the UK
Community Supported Agriculture and How CSA Boxes Work in the UK At a Glance Aspect Details Carbon Saving Significant reduction in transport and packaging Cost £15-30 per week typically Commitment…
Air Source Heat Pumps and the Government Grant That Makes Them Affordable
Air Source Heat Pumps At a Glance Aspect Details Carbon Saving Up to 2.5 tonnes CO2 per year Annual Running Cost Similar to gas boilers with current electricity prices Installation…
Fast Fashion and Your Wardrobe and the Carbon Cost Nobody Puts on the Label
Fast Fashion and Your Wardrobe and the Carbon Cost Nobody Puts on the Label At a Glance Aspect Details Carbon Impact Fashion produces 10% of global carbon emissions annually Annual…
How I Turned My Tiny Concrete Prison Into a Self-Sustaining Urban Ecosystem (And You Can Too)
So here I was, standing in my flat’s “patio,” which was literally a 2×2.5 metre concrete slab between my sliding glass doors and a chain link fence. The previous tenant…
The Day I Realized My Leggings Were Poisoning Fish (And What I Actually Did About It)
A few months ago I was in my bathroom staring at my jar of plastic free toiletries (each jar labeled with my terrible hand writing using masking tape) and I…