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 pollution incidents, maybe it’s not quite far enough. The Sewers In the ‘Great Stink’ summer of 1858, sewage was literally [...]
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 easy, clean, and efficient way to reduce your rubbish and improve your garden at the same time. What Is A Compost Heap? At its simplest [...]
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, nuisance pollution is anything that we feel is polluting our home environment and is causing such a problem, that our lives [...]
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 five years, we have done a very good job at improving the water quality after having been [...]
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 for a long time with the Chinese using them for hundreds of years. So why not build you own compost toilet? Go on … you [...]
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 for life, or not use them at all. And yet they are still a major environmental problem. Bag Facts [...]
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 its known, is no laughing matter. What Is Fly Tipping? Fly tipping is the illegal dumping of waste. Whether it [...]
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 different systems – often a mix between kerbside collection, different bin systems, and alternating collection weeks! However, help is at [...]
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 the sewer systems and to the environment. It’s an area of waste disposal which has been difficult to deal with because of its [...]
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 just pop in the bin after use – or are they? Because many people are decrying the mega-million dollar [...]
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 or dandelions. And what about those horrible, fat slugs which just refuse to leave our Hostas alone? Sooner or later, even the [...]
Balloons are wonderful things – they express fun, laughter, celebration – and when one or many are released into the air, to watch them slowly rise into the sky is a joyous thing. But recently, there has been a move to try to persuade people not to let go of [...]
