recycling

A bitter pill

Can you recycle pill packets? It’s a surprisingly difficult question, since the official line is “yes” but the real answer appears to be “with great difficulty, if at all”. 

Rubber band girl

It started out as a simple question. 

As well as this website, I run a wiki about ways to pass on things you’re no longer using to people or organisations who might actually want them. (I suspect I’m the wiki’s only reader as well as its only contributor, but that’s beside the point.)

Plastic bags are rubbish - it's official

It's official: the plastic bag is now seriously uncool. On a global level, marine scientists have known for decades that plastic rubbish finds its way into our oceans. Once in the sea, the same tiny pellet of plastic can kill countless birds and fish in a macabre cycle: the animal eats the plastic and dies, then the animal's body rots away to expose the plastic inside. The plastic is then back in the ocean, ready to kill another unsuspecting bird or fish.