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Building a Compost Toilet
Compost toilets conjure images of smelly, damp, fly-ridden outside cubicles, but in fact this couldn’t be further from the truth.
They have actually been around...
Composting your Natural Waste
Compost heaps conjures up images of green-fingered gardeners and steaming stables. However, that doesn’t tell the whole story because composting your natural waste is an...
Disposal of Pesticides
When it comes to doing battle with weeds, it’s the weeds which usually win! Particularly when in comes to persistent and invasive nasties such as ground elder, brambles...
Fly Tipping
Everywhere you go, you see the ubiquitous mattress or fridge left by the side of the road. So much so, that it’s almost become a British joke.
But fly-tipping, as...
Household Waste Recycling
Do You Recycle Your Waste?
Well, we all have good intentions don’t we? And it isn’t made easy for us with every county in the land seeming to operate completely...
Landfill and Nappies
Disposable nappies – how we love ‘em!
Gone are the days of buckets of soiled nappies and big pins, happy are the days of fresh fluffy white bundles which you can...
Lost Balloons and the Impact on the Environment
Balloons are wonderful things – they express fun, laughter, celebration – and when one or many are released into the air, to watch them slowly rise...
Nuisance Pollution
From time to time, we all get affected by nuisance pollution, but what exactly is it and what can we do about it?
What Is Nuisance Pollution?
Quite simply,...
Sewage Pollution
We’ve come a long way since the days of bedpans and pots being emptied out of windows directly into the streets below, but reading some of the statistics on sewage...
The Causes of Dirty Beaches
It would be nice to hear that our beaches are some of the cleanest in Europe – and you’d be forgiven for thinking that maybe you thought they were. Because over the past...
The Impact of Plastic Bags at Sea
You’d have to have been living on Mars not to notice the push recently for us to use less plastic bags. We’re given incentives to re-use them, re-cycle them, use bags...
Waste Disposal: Bag It & Bin It
Disposable personal sanitary products make our lives easier and more convenient. However, each year, 2 billion of them are flushed down the toilet causing damage both to...





