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Cost of chicken feed gone WAY up...
Our layers food has gone up about 40% - to almost £7 a bag. Anyone know a good stockist please? Or a way of feeding them cheaper? Many thanks!
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Supposedly Free Range eggs but caged from local butchers
:mad: After seeing for myself where our eggs come from etc, as many have over the last couple of weeks, i decided i wouldnt be buying cheap eggs anymore, only organic or free range. As i hadnt purchased these before i have been looking around and comparing prices and found supermarkets to be about £1.80 for 6 but Netto are…
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Re-cycling wooden pallets in summer
Hi, Please does anyone have any ideas for recycling wooden pallets in the warmer months. We generate quite a few of these at work, and in the winter we have several local people who take them away to use as fuel, but we have no takers in the summer and they are at the moment going to landfill. We have looked at…
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Calculating Solar Power Outpower
Firstly apologies if this is not in the correct thread. I was wondering if someone could tell me how to calculate how much power a 13w solar briefcase would make? Or to fully charge a 85AH leisure battery? What figures do I need? Or does anyone have a dummies guide type website I could look at to learn more? Thanks
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Where have all the free range chickens gone?
I've decided as a result of the Hugh's Chicken Run programme that where ever possible I will try to buy freerange chicken and eggs. However I went to the supermarket today and could find absolutely nothing. Not even a section for it. I then went to Sainsburys and there were about 5! How is anyone supposed to change their…
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want to buy a few chickens
Hi i want to buy a few chickens ovbiously get coop etc but just wondering wouldi need to inform council is there any special rules etc around keeping them and does anyone else on here have them and if so how are they finding it! I want to keep my own after watching jamie olivers prog last night also would be looking at…
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LED traffic light
I often wondered this as I like to save money and do my bit for the environment. Why dont traffic lights use LED arrays? Surely that woudl not only save on energy costs but, also labour as led last longer and if one goes it doesn't need replacement the whole lot unlike a bulb We getting a whole load of new traffic lights…
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£5 M&S voucher for your old M&S clothes!
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this in; according to my daily paper yesterday, M&S are launching a scheme with Oxfam, starting for a six-month trial on 28th Jan: customers who donate any unwanted M&S clothes will receive a £5 voucher in return, valid for one month, against purchases of £35 or more of M&S…
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Anyone else using ecosmart
Found them better than co op own brand and ecover. Simply active eco smart - https://www.simplywashing.com. you get a sensitive skin version too and they have a softener. Morrisons sell them I don't know who else. A bit cheaper than ecover too. free delivery from their website too.
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Eat less meat!
Continuing the theme of recent threads maybe we should all be taking a closer look at our diets and cut back on the amount of meat we actually eat, which in turn can only help to reduce the amount of intensive farming and poor welfare of the animals. The scale of expansion in meat production and consumption is…
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Recycling fur coats
Hi there. I'm looking to part with my fur coat collection, I have twelve (at last count) and I just don't have the room for them any more. I should point out that my coats are all older than myself! I'm looking to sell them on to a company who takes in second hand fur to be refurbished and sold on. I like the idea that…
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recycling xmas chocolate tins?
PLEASE DELETE AS I HAVE JUST REALISED SOMEONE HAS ALREADY POSTED THIS. SORRY I cant work out how to delete it
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Recycling CDs and VHS Tapes
Any idea of what to do with these? The CDs are the computer software ones from people like AOL. The VHS tapes are no longer required as we do not have a tape player any more. I did a search on the net and can see that the one company The Recycling People charge to break these down to then send for recycling. Thanks in…
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is there such thing as environmentally friendly beanbags?!
Hello, went to Ikea yesterday, and they said that they didn't sell beanbags as they weren't environmentally friendly. Has anyone invented an environmentally friendly beanbag yet?! Thanks
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Can someone explain Freecycle to me?
Hi All, Sorry if I'm being a bit dumb but how do you get things from freecycle? Have seen a veg stand advertised and just wondering how I go about 'applying' for it :o ) Probably very obvious to everyone else but seems to good to be true to me! xredx
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Are smaller bins the answer to our waste problem?
I was thinking about this the other day. When I was a child (in the 80's) our rubbish bins were a lot smaller (those black ones with the lift off lids). Now we were very poor, therefore hardly anything went to waste. We were a family of 5 and I never remember not having any space in our bins for the rubbish - and this was…
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DIY Funeral & flat pack coffins any advice welcome
Hi guys! I am not ready to shuffle off this mortal coil yet but feel the need to plan a green cost effective send off. My OH hates talking about it but to me its a natural event and can be pland for to avoivd extra stress at a (hopefuly) sad time. Can anyone tell me were I could get a flat pack cheap coffin? Idea being to…
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Moneysaving and helping the environment
I've just spent today at a training day to become a local events organiser for WWF - fantastic day, but what brought it home to me was by doing the small things you can save the environment/planet. And, it was also brought home to me that by doing these things, you can save money as well! Sorry, this might sound a bit…
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Chocolate tins - can they be recycled?
So we have accumulated a few (ahem :o ) big chocolate tins since Christmas... Question is, can they be recycled? I really can't use them around the house anymore (already using a few for all the paints, crayons and other kiddies' bits and bobs) so want them out of the house!!! Our council have a recycling centre somewhere,…
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what can I use instead of vanish?
hello all as asked above- what could I use instead of vanish? I have a 6yr old whose school trousers & jeans always green on the knees- a husband who insists on spilling meals down white tops (especially curry!!) & a 9 month old whose bibs are just a nightmare- it works out pretty pricey when you're using it on as many…
