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Ecover products cheaper
Somerfield have two ecover cleaning products at half price making them very cheap. One is the eco squirt which is now 99p and the cream cleanser now 49p a bottle. Hope that helps someone Yours Calley
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Low energy Halogen light bulbs
When I had my kitchen made over last year, I inadvertantly bought a swanky new light which uses 4 halogen light bulbs. They look great and illuminate every corner of the kitchen, but aside from them being very hot to stand under, they blow every 5 minutes and use tons of energy. I heard you can get 'green' ones based on…
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Refridgerator Plugs
Has anyone heard of these? I saw one on a tv program a couple of years back - the usual 'how to make your house greener' thing. I'm not sure exactly what they do, but it's something to do with only passing electricity to the fridge when it needs it, which apparently is only infrequently. Since getting my last electricity…
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Chickens and flies
Hi everyone Well this is the first summer I have had my chickens and the flies which seem to be having a party around the run, are driving me crazy !!! Any idea how I can get rid of them safely and preferably without using chemicals ? Many thanks, Bek
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Bagged or Bagless?
Just about to buy a new hoover and I am going to buy a nice bagged one. I am doing this because I believe that the bagless ones are false economy and despite the adverts the do loose suction much worse than the bagged ones:rolleyes: . With the bagless cleaners I have to empty them in the bin (dust goes everywhere), clean…
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There Is Only One Money Saving Tip That Goes Right Through The Board...
There is only one money saving tip that goes right through the board. It is called "self control". We live in an age where everything has to be done NOW - MUST HAVE - WANT. If we all exercised just a little bit of self control - self restraint - I think we might all just save.....a penny or two.....a pound here and…
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PC (and other) Power Saving
Hi there, I haven't seen this posted here yet (appologies if it has been before), so I thought I'd mention this potentially useful product to all you green money savers. One Click Power make power boards/ extension leads etc that have a "master socket". If you plug your PC into the master socket and your other bits and…
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Recycling Directory
Just found this Recycling Directory produced by a local council http://www.lancaster.gov.uk/Category.asp?cat=777 Might be a bit 'local' but never the less it's got some good ideas in it :j Maybe all councils should have to produce one.
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Recycling Batteries (Merged)
Hello! Following other threads on recycling, we've found that there are very few opportunities to recycle batteries in the UK. :confused: The average household uses 21 batteries a year. The UK generates 20,000 - 30,000 tonnes of waste general purpose batteries every year, but less than 1,000 tonnes are recycled. :eek: EU…
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Guide to posting on Green and Ethical Board
Welcome to the Green and Ethical moneysaving board :) I hope you find a wealth of information here to help you on the road to becoming green. :j As this is a new board and we are in danger of being swamped by duplicate threads, can I ask that you do a search before posting a new thread. This will make the task of…
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Valve for waste pipe
I hope this is the right place for this. I'm looking for a valve that will fit on a 40mm plastic waste pipe to either open or block the flow. Has anyone ever seen such a thing? This is part of a water butt system that saves my bath water for garden watering. A drought order is about to implemented in my part of Kent.…
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The Beauty Backlash - is heavily edited advertising ethical?
Did anyone see the bbc 2 'The Beauty Backlash' programme on Friday? Some details are here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5074642.stm but it is a very one sided view. One of the main points I took away from it was that certain beauty companies are purposely researching and playing on women's insecurities. It seems that…
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Holiday postcard alternatives.
For people on the internet we've started to send email's with an A4 attachment, the A4 attachment has photo's we've taken on it. The reaction we've had has been that people actually like seeing exactly where we've been and what we've been doing. They don't seem to be just being polite as sometimes we see printout's on…
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Just bought a recycled water diverter
Hi Just bought a bathwater diverter off ebay that fits onto the bath wastepipe outside. From this I can tap a hosepipe either for direct watering as the bath empties, or more conveniently into a water-butt. Where can I get a good but cheap water butt?
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Recycled Christmas, could it work???
I have been doing some serious thinking ahead about our family Christmas this year. Now before you all shoot me down for mentioning the C word in June, read on..... ;) This year I have decided I would like to have a recycled Christmas, my question is can I make it work?? By saying recycled I mean, all gifts given or…
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The Allotment Handbook for a fiver
Eco-logic books (fantastic source of ecological books) have The Allotment Handbook on offer for a limited time at £5 - Amazon currently have it listed for £6.95. Trouble is with Eco-logic books that once you start browsing their bookshelf you can find yourself spending a lot of money.
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Recycling Coat hangers
Hi, just been having a clear out and have hundreds of them, mainly plastic or plastic with the metal hook. Does anyone know if they can be recycled?? [threadbanner]box[/threadbanner]
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4 large landrover tyres..how can i reuse them in the garden
hi.. i have 4 old landrover tyres in the garden... that hubby put there a few years ago.... as they were no good for mot.....there are quite big tyres.....we no longer have the landrovers... but we still have these tyres...... any suggestions to what i could use them for in the garden.....i was thinking of using them for…
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Will I get junk mail if I sign up with Confused.com?
I have been trying my bestest to minimise the amount of junk mail I receive over the past few years, and so far have been relatively successful (apart from Telewest who send me mail to 'The Occupier' even though I have complained many times and am already a full-bloomin'-service customer!). I am interested in signing up…
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One new green thing a week!
Okay we all want to be greener but there are so many things to remember to do and in all the hub bub we (oh well I) forget. So i have decided and perhaps some people may like to join me to do one new green thing a week. the theory is that this way i can concentrate on remembering to do it and then get so used to doing it…
