No Waste Like home

reddevilled

AnnaV wrote:

It's probably just like teaching your granny to suck eggs when you lot watch it though

I think it's good as there are a lot of people who live like that, beleive it or not. I'm sure I have been guilty of it in the past myself, but trying to change all that now.

I liked the way the showed the financial saving as I think that's a bit more of a kick up the !!!!!! to most people than doing it just for the environment, especially when it is so easy to think 'what difference is one person going to make?'

You're quite right - it's only good for the environment if people are shown the error of their ways. I'm just jealous 'cos I want free energy saving stuff :mad:

culpepper

I think at least this program gets people thinking about what they might be wasting.
We have started turning off the appliances on standby in our house since watching the first of these(including the cooker and microwave which have clocks).I can see how long the cooker has been on because it runs a mechanical clock and amazed myself that sometimes it is only for 20 minutes,obviously the microwave is hardly on either so we have been running the clocks for years for barely minutes worth of usage.

AnnaV

reddevilled wrote:

You're quite right - it's only good for the environment if people are shown the error of their ways. I'm just jealous 'cos I want free energy saving stuff :mad:

Me too! It's really strange that our government doesn't subsidise things like this. But I suppose the energy compnaies wouldn't like it much!

I lived in Germany for a few years and they are so good at recycling and using energy-saving things there (and speaking to friends I know it's not just Germany), we seem so behind here.

Rave

culpepper wrote:

so we have been running the clocks for years for barely minutes worth of usage.

A single AA battery can run a clock for years, and contains about 0.05 pence worth of electricity at mains prices. That's no reason not to turn it off of course, but I doubt you've wasted much money if it was just the clock being powered;).

squiggles

awww i forgot about this programme again,must remember next week.

culpepper

Rave wrote:

A single AA battery can run a clock for years, and contains about 0.05 pence worth of electricity at mains prices. That's no reason not to turn it off of course, but I doubt you've wasted much money if it was just the clock being powered;).

Is that true for a mechanical clock though? The kind where the numbers rotate.The clock on our cooker is like that and quite noisy too.
Also although a single AA battery may be able to run a digital clock,it is the mains running these clocks and also the LED on the video,DVD,HIFI and TV standby lights and their respective clocks too.Just because a 1.5v battery can run a clock doesnt mean that these appliances are only using 1.5v to power theirs.Every little helps!

sans_2

tr3mor wrote:

And the presenter, if she rode that bike everywhere like they claim, she wouldn't be such a lard-!!!!!!! (not that there's anything wrong with being a lard-!!!!!!, i'm fairly hefty myself, but still!)

I was wondering if the presenter on the bike was just for cameras as I was surprised that she didn't look like many of the cyclists I've seen out and about.

I had been so looking forward to this programme mall week. I'm guilty of using disposable nappies but certainly not 1 nappy every two hours! I do recycle/ reuse pretty much what I can. Might be why I have piles and piles of used envelopes for reusing.

nicki_2

Does anyone have any idea how I can set up a wormary like they did on the show? I hate the idea of the amount of raw waste we can produce (potato peelings, carrot tops & tails etc) but we can't have a compost heap as we have nowhere to put it which wouldn't encourage rats. I thought the wormery was a good alternative but have no idea how to start!

Anyways I want to show OH what us Ol'Stylers can do as he said "I like the idea of a wormery but how do you make one?" "How am I supposed to know that?", I asked; "Well you lot on Old Style seem to know everything I'm sure you can work out how to make one instead of buying one!" :rotfl:

tr3mor

You'll need to get get some metal wire grills, not the wide chicken wire, but the smaller wire grills with ~1cm square gaps. then i would dig a square hole in the ground as big as you like, probably around 1ft deep, line the bottom of the hole with some of the wire mesh, then drive long wooden stakes (probably around 5 ft, 2 ft below ground, 1 ft in the hole you've dug and 2 ft above ground) into each corner of the square.

Wrap more of the wire grill around the stakes up to ground level, and above that nail whatever wood you want to use to the stakes, and make some sort of lid if you want. That should keep the rats away from your compost.

Sweet_Pea_2

I've got a compost bin on order from the council, still waiting for it to arrive. (They were the cheapest I could find as they are subsidised) I put off the idea of a compost bin for ages as like Nicki, I hate all the waste that you could recycle but didnt want to encourage rats. However I read that as long as you dont put any meat or any cooked waste or bones in you will have no problems from rats.
I have been saving tea bags, coffee grounds, egg shells, veg and fruit peelings and banana skins and the inner tubes from loo rolls and kitchen rolls for a few weeks now, whilst waiting for my bin to arrive, most of it is in sealed boxes outside but I have a box in the pantry, and I am amazed because it doesnt even smell. (yet)
Im also amazed how much there is, I didnt think there would be so much. I went to John Lewis for a cup of tea whilst shopping the other day with my mom and daughters. DD1 had a banana and my mom was absolutely gobsmacked that I wrapped the banana skin up in napkins and bought it home for the compost bin!