recycle-more.co.uk have launched a brand new text service that you can use to find out how to recycle wherever you are in the UK and if you don’t have access to their website. To use it, all you have to do is text ‘waste’ and your postcode to 60060 from anywhere in the UK, and you will receive a text back with details of where you can recycle anything from plastic milk bottles to old toasters. Texts cost 50p plus the standard network charge. Users will only be charged once, regardless of how many texts form the reply. The 50p charge covers the cost of maintaining an accurate nationwide recycling service. If any money is made from the text service, it will be put back into the system and used to encourage recycling throughout the UK.
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On Christmas day what are you going to do with all that wrapping paper? Recycle it? Great. What about the cards? Give them a week or so and recycle those too, or maybe hang on to them for a year to use the front for gift labels next year? Terrific. The tree? In 12 days it’ll be collected by the council, then chipped and composted. All well and good. Here’s a little something that you can do with any boxes that may be coming your way this Christmas, before you recycle them that is. A fun activity to get the kids involved in while you’re waiting for lunch to be ready, or if you’re making lunch, or don’t have kids, something to occupy your afternoon and keep you away from second helpings of Christmas pudding.
I love the instructables website, there are some amazing ideas. Here’s how to make a reindeer out of a computer box (or any other box for that matter) for the kids (we all know how much little kids like boxes - they often prefer the boxes to the contents) for Christmas day entertainment. You may even like it so much that you’ll decide to keep it (for a while anyway). When you tire of your reindeer, don’t forget to recycle him.
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Newsflash! There’s a UK mobile service provider who cares more about the environment than making massive profits.
Green Mobile has some great packages that give something back to the environment. Firstly, they encourage you to keep your current phone rather than upgrade when you switch to them. They offer refurbished phones with contracts as well as new “greener” phones, and plant trees or support an environmental charity for every new customer. And to top it all off, their line rental is cheaper than that of Orange, Vodafone, T-mobile and O2.
What are greener phones?
Green Mobile are set to be the first to introduce the new “Sunflower Phone” to the UK. It’s a totally biodegradable phone that has a built-in seed that will grow once the phone is planted in the ground.
Find out more and switch at the Green Mobile website.
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