Moving on from The Book of Rubbish Ideas

2010 has been an incredible year for Tracey Smith, author of The Book of Rubbish Ideas and it’s about to roll out with a BANG! Tomorrow morning, on BBC Breakfast Television News and on BBC World, the Global News Network, she’ll be giving her top tips on what to do with a rubbish present….and perhaps [...]

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From the lovely John Naish on The Landfill Prize!

Golf club-shaped urinal, anyone? Motorised ice-cream cone holder? In the depths of the global crunch, why would anyone want to waste precious money on pointless junk that ends up in the trashcan after a couple of uses? But sales of consumer nonsense are still rocketing – stuff such as wand-shaped TV remote controls, desk-top hoovers, [...]

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What on Earth’s an Earthship?

I love hearing from people who are doing amazing things to protect and care for our present and future environments for the generations yet to come. I genuinely feel very excited to be one of many optimistic green activists, at a pivotal point in earth’s history; we are the generation that will make incredible positive [...]

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Unleash Your Creativity (and cut down your rubbish!)

Good grief, it’s almost July and that means one thing… The race is on for work-at-home parents up and down the country to crack their most important jobs out before the onset of the 6-week school holidays. I’m not trying to make it sound like it’s a torturous event, on the contrary, it’s an honour [...]

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Tesco Rebuke the Recycling Robbers

Supermarket giant Tesco will no longer be giving Green Clubcard points for customers who have returned empty items to deposit in their recycling machines. The machines are designed to take a variety of recyclable materials including plastic, tin and glass and are located in around 40 branches of the store throughout England and there’s one [...]

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A Bagging Update

Hi all, Only a shortie, it’s been a busy week here in the Smith Word Shed… Friday morning I got together with my Crafty Group and we made our first batch of Morsbags! I found a fabulous blue and white throw in the RSPCA charity shop that set me back the princely sum of £1.50! [...]

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A Very Social Solution to Killing Off the Plastic Bag!

I came across an incredibly inspirational company last week called Morsbags, with a delightful strapline of ‘Sociable, Guerrilla, Bagging’. ‘What are you on about now, you crazy woman’, I can hear you from here you know! I’ll tell you, I haven’t felt this excited and sane about a project in a long time… Perhaps the [...]

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How Do You Ban the Dreaded Plastic Bag?

Ban the Plastic Bag is a small but very evocative read from the green shelf of Fragile Earth Books and essentially, it sets out a community action plan for a carrier bag-free world. Every year 17 billion carrier bags are given away free in the UK;  that means an average of 300 carrier bags for [...]

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The Work/Life Balance: Don’t Have a Rubbish One (and some seriously sneaky peeks at what’s coming next…)

Seasons Greetings to all, It’s Christmas Eve and following a short trip to London, I’m now home in the bosom of my lovely family and preparing for a few days of non-work related fun! For the past five months, with the kind assistance of dear Thomas, I’ve delivered a rubbish post-a-day to tantalise you, to [...]

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Nothin’ to See, Move Along Now…

Morning all, Just a shortie to let you know, there will be NO rubbish posting today – how rubbish is that! It’s school play, carol service, mince pie making mayhem at the Smith Towers and I have to keep some sort of handle on my work/life balance you know… Anyway, this is a perfect opportunity [...]

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