Meet mum of 4 and ‘mumpreneur’ Christine McRitchie. She somehow manages to fit in running 3 flourishing internet eco-businesses, alongside the demands of family life. Plush Pants Cloth Nappies was her first venture: “I took on Plush Pants when my youngest baby, Victoria, was just under a year old. It’s been a labour of love and [...]
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Earthwise Girls Rule!
Posted in Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish products, tagged Christine McRitchie, Earthwise Girls, Plush Pants, Terry Nappies, washable nappies, washable sanitary protection on 11 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Got the Sniffles? Ditch a’Tissue….(bless you)…
Posted in Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish products, tagged handkerchief, money saving tips, organic cotton, Organic-ally, Sustainable Living, the common cold, tissues on 19 January 2009 | 18 Comments »
It’s that time of year again. Actually, in my house, it’s been ‘that’ time of year since the kids broke up for their Christmas holidays! There have been more coughs and colds going around the village than you could shake a snotty stick at and I’ve been rather dismayed to see one too many empty [...]
Your Rubbish Mission, Should You Choose to Accept it…
Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, General rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish activism, tagged carbon footprint, composting, eco-education, gardening, Get Started with Compost, Landfill, Leftovers, Love Food Hate Waste, Plastic, Zero Waste Week on 12 December 2008 | 4 Comments »
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The Woodland Trust Launches Their Annual Christmas Card Recycling Campaign
Posted in Paper rubbish, Rubbish celebrities, Rubbish news, tagged Christmas card recycling, Christmas Card Recycling Scheme, Christmas cards, Coronation Street, Recycling, Robert Lane, Samia Smith, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, The Woodland Trust, woodland conservation on 8 December 2008 | 4 Comments »
The resources section at the back of The Book of Rubbish Ideas is packed out with some of the most inspirational, eco-friendly innovators and The Woodland Trust is no exception. They do incredible work protecting and planting new areas of woodland and ensuring we have lots of lovely clean air to breathe! Recently, I [...]
WRAP Help Local Authorities Through the Economic Downturn
Posted in Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish news, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged Closed Loop Recycling, Environment Agency, Landfill, Liz Goodwin, Recycling, Rubbish, Rubbish Q&A Day, Waste and Resources Action Programme, WRAP on 5 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I thoroughly enjoyed my recent Rubbish Q&A Day here on the blog and thank you again for all of your thought provoking questions. One particular question left me with strong concerns about the stockpiling of recyclable materials, in light of the blip on our economic landscape. My research uncovered the plummet in the trading price [...]
Rubbish Q&A Day
Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, General rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish products, Rubbish Q&A, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged ACLM, aluminium cans, Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation, Alupro, Association for Contact Lens Manufacturers, Association for Organics Recycling, beat the credit crunch, Bokashi composting, carborexics, cardboard, cellophane wrappers, Click4Carbon, Community, community projects, composting, contact lens, cornstarch bottles, DEFRA, Dig For Victory, Dollond & Aitchison, eco-education, Eco-Schools, European Tissue Symposium, Freecycle, Get Started with Compost, glass jars, incineration, Jamie Oliver, Janey Lee Grace, Junkk, Junkk.com, knitting, Knitting Help, Letters for Change, making your own clothes, oestrogen soup, organic cotton, Organic-ally, Original Organics, Patient’s Returned Medicine Scheme, pet litter, Plastic, Polymer Recycling, Recycle, Recycle Now, Recycling, Recycling Expert, recycling video tape, SCRIB, Specsavers, Steel Can Recycling Information Bureau, steel cans, sustainable family, The Book of Rubbish Ideas, The Composting Association, The Rubbish Diet, The Times, Tracey Smith, University recycling schemes, unwanted medicine, vacuum bags, VeggiePets.com, Vision Aid Overseas, W. F. Denny, Waste and Resources Action Programme, Wellway Pharmacy, WRAP, YouTube on 10 November 2008 | 15 Comments »
A quick note from Thomas: Hi everybody and welcome to the first Book of Rubbish Ideas Q&A day. Anybody out there who wants to leave Tracey a rubbish and sustainable living related questions may do so by leaving a comment under this post and Tracey will then get busy finding an answer for you. So [...]
Click4Carbon’s Top Rubbish Tips
Posted in General rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish news, tagged carbon footprint, Claire Russell, Click4Carbon, Climate Change, Climate Change Campaign, Cottages4You, deforestation, eco-education, education, Environment, Environmental Campaigns, environmental footprint, PATT, Plant a Tree Today Foundation, PriceRunner, Sky News, Superbreak on 30 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
I had a lovely chat with a very busy and gorgeous Claire Russell, founder of the recently launched environmental website Click4Carbon, who were featured on Sky News earlier this week. Here she talks about the concept behind her innovative website and explains why she believes those little things in life really can make a [...]
How To: Make Crafty Rubbish Cards
Posted in Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, tagged beat the credit crunch, birthday cards, card making, Christmas cards, crafting, crafts, handcrafts, how to make cards, money saving tips on 22 October 2008 | 11 Comments »
Oh, I’ve been a naughty chick today. I really should have been tap, tap, tapping away on the keyboard, but my dear chum Izzy twisted my arm and convinced me I needed to accompany her on a visit to a couple of local craft shops instead – so I did… We hung up our usual [...]
How To: ‘Enjoy’ a Rubbish Children’s Party!
Posted in Food rubbish, General rubbish, Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, Rubbish recipes, tagged beat the credit crunch, birthday present ideas, cake recipes, cakes, children's entertainers, children's parties, crafts, games, gifts, jigzone jigsaw, karaoke, money saving tips, parties, party food, popcorn on 17 October 2008 | 5 Comments »
By that I mean, how to have all the fun without creating a great stack of trash! Children’s parties are big business and they have become expensive nightmares filled with plastic tat, most of which ends up in the bin the minute the guests head home. Here are some of my top tips for taking [...]
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