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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Tracey Smith on Newsnight Tonight?

I might well have been, had I lived closer to the centre of the universe (London that is). Late this afternoon, I received an invitation to appear on tonight’s Newsnight on the BBC; it seems they’re going to be talking a load of old rubbish…

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Look ‘Inside’ The Book of Rubbish Ideas!

Ooh! I nipped on Amazon this morning (as you do) and The Book of Rubbish Ideas popped up (as it does) and there’s a new ‘sneaky peek inside the book’ thingie widget to play with…! (How sad – so easily pleased…) Anyway, I thought perhaps new readers to the blog might like to have a [...]

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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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Happy New Merry and The Great North Swim

A-ha! We’re here! Happy New Year and all that associated malarkey 8) . I hope your Christmas break was filled with thoughts about how you could be more resourceful with the rubbish you found yourself wading through.  If like me, you managed to miss the bin men, you’re probably still harbouring a stack of recycling [...]

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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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Rubbish on the Radio – 17th December 10am-1pm

‘Tis midweek again  – yippee! My regular rubbish readers will know I broadcast a radio show called ‘Slow Down and Green Up’ on Apple every Wednesday, between 10am and 1pm (GMT).

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How To: Organise Christmas Clothes Swap Party

Need a new LBD but money’s too tight to mention? Then take my rubbish advice and squeeze in a quick Clothes Swap Party! I was chatting to a batty friend over the weekend who informed me that her office Christmas do was coming up and that she had ‘absolutely nothing to wear sweetie!’ Now her [...]

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WRAP Help Local Authorities Through the Economic Downturn

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 [...]

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This ‘Woman’s Hour’ Has Arrived!

Dearest all, I’m in London and currently looking out of a window onto the world and the clock is ticking along, getting ever closer to 1am – eek! I had a call late yesterday from Radio 4 (as you do) asking if I could just whip up to Town and go do Woman’s Hour?  Well, [...]

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