New look website
Sustainability in practice now has a new circular menu system, using icons to point you towards your interests. The promised list of topics is now complete and up to date. Did you know that the strike price for onshore wind …
Category: Post on Facebook
Facebook Auto Publish is set to publish only posts in this category to FB. Thus, a post can be edited and viewed on the web site before assigning it to this category and initiating the autoplublish.
Waste recycling kerbside sort is best
In December 2016, WRAP, the Waste and Resources Action Plan, a government body, produced their “Harmonised Recycling Collections Costs Project”, for three areas in Wales, an Urban Authority, a Rural Authority and a Valley Authority. This showed that the kerbside …
Confused by different recyling rules?
It’s infuriating! Every local council seems to have different rules for what can and can’t be put into your household recycling. Some insist you separate things into different containers – glass, paper, plastic, etc. – whilst others let you throw …
Secondary glazing for windows
In our 2007-14 granite house refurbishment, we decided to replace all the windows in the house with double glazed units. Two thirds were sliding sash and case; the remainder pivot windows. Two sash and case windows with coloured glass were …
Biodegradable coffee cups
The proposed 25p tax on disposable coffee cups will reduce cup use, but not solve the basic problem . Plastic does not degrade if left lying on the ground. Microorganisms in nature cannot digest plastic’s long chain molecules. They can …
Climate Week North East, 16-25th March 2018
Climate Week North East (16 -25 March) is a week of events designed to raise awareness of climate change but, more importantly, show what we can all do to make a difference and reduce our carbon footprint in a fun …