No Waste Like home

Gingham_Ribbon

When you put materials into your recycling bin, don't put them in a plastic bag. Don't put oven-proof glass, drinking glasses or ceramic mugs in your bin either. Just 25g of oven-proof glass can contaminate one tonne of normal glass, making it useless for recycling.

No luck yet, but I found this and thought it was helpful. So no recycling those broken pyrex dishes then!

tootles_2

Once the nappy bin

Why don't you keep the nappy bin in the bathroom????? far more hygenic than keeping it in the kitchen where there is food prep going on.

AnnaV

So glad I'm not a student any more. She was encouraging them all to buy food together and cook together, but it's so hard when you never know who's going to be in the house. And soooooo annoying when someone's eaten the last slice of bread/drunk the last of the milk without buying more. You just end up with angry notes everywhere...as they started to on the programme!

jo_b_2

I missed the last programme. Any useful hints emerge this time?

elona

Most of it was on recycling and reducing waste in general.

jo_b_2

elona wrote:

Most of it was on recycling and reducing waste in general.

Thanks. I recycle everything that my local council has facilities for and feed all green veggy waste to the rabbit. Doesn't sound as though I missed much then.

squeaky

Due on in twenty minutes.

culpepper

seems like so long as you have a few thousand pounds knocking about,you can be ecological without much effort.
They featured a washing machine that cost £1000 which could weigh the load and adjust the water/time of wash to suit.
In previous progs
£17000 for the dual fuel car.
£2000 for a solar panel
etc....

Interestingly the mother in this weeks family pointed out that if they kept up their saving ways, a year would save £3000 and she would not have to return to her part time job.
When I gave up work when my DS was born,I discovered much the same thing (frugal living was saving money to the equivalent of a part time job).

Gingham_Ribbon

We also found that out. We worked out that if I went back to teaching part time, at the moment, we would be worse off than we are now. It surprised me how much I do to save us money, but I just wouldn't have the time and the costs soon add up.

Does anyone know where to get those stacking bins with lids at the front that they used for their recycling? That's exactly what I need. There's no room to have them side by side.

Caixta

We got ours from Ikea. We have a stack of 3.