Tesco Recycling Centres are Being Misused

A while ago Tesco stores chain introduced experimental recycling machines that paid you in Clubcard points (they can be exchanged for stuff once you collect more than 250 of those) for items you brought to recycle. They used to accept plastic, paper, aluminium cans and other easily recyclable materials....

How Much Money can a Standby Shutdown Save

Quite a few clever devices have been introduced recently claiming they can save us money on the electricity bill. How genuine are those claims? I’ve had my hands on the newest standby shutdown by Energenie and I spent the last weekend giving it a scrutinizing “test drive”, so here’s...

Things You Should Buy Used

Just found a very unusual article on USnews. Unusual for that particular type of site, that is. Written by Lynn Truong (an important person in the anti-consumerism movement), it lists 21 things that you should avoid buying new. So what’s on the hotlist? Cars, furniture, decor items, tools. Sounds like...

Why Recycled Paper Towels?

It’s the time for another dose of scary statistics. I recently came across a study carried out in the USA. They’ve found that in States alone if each household replaced just one roll of traditional paper towel with a recycled paper towel, the country would save 1.4 million trees and 3.7 million...

Competition: Free Energy Saving Light Bulbs

For your chance to grab seven free energy saving light bulbs, please enter the competition. You will be asked to answer a simple question about paper consumption. You won’t have to stretch too far for the answer (nudge, nudge). You will also be asked to accept the terms and conditions and… now...

Solar Energy Facts and Figures

I wrote about the feed-in tariffs recently and I’m very pleased to have received so much feedback. Probably you’ve noticed that I’m pretty enthusiastic about solar cells and renewable energy. Let’s see if I can convert a sceptic or two by dropping some solar energy facts and...