Comments on: Recycle Reduce Re-use http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:51:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Little Mummy http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-72636 Little Mummy Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:13:42 +0000 http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-72636 Good tip for the cleaning products, might try that later on in the year. Good tip for the cleaning products, might try that later on in the year.

]]> By: Gruppie Girl http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-72603 Gruppie Girl Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:20:58 +0000 http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-72603 What a great start! Recycling will someday be so automatic for your kids becasue you are making it that way for them. Another way to save on packaging is to make your own safe and healthy cleaning products that you can put into bottles that you use again and again. For example, vinegar and water in a spray bottle works wonders for glass, mirrors and counters. Every little bit adds up! What a great start! Recycling will someday be so automatic for your kids becasue you are making it that way for them.

Another way to save on packaging is to make your own safe and healthy cleaning products that you can put into bottles that you use again and again.

For example, vinegar and water in a spray bottle works wonders for glass, mirrors and counters.

Every little bit adds up!

]]> By: Little Mummy http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-69316 Little Mummy Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:44:28 +0000 http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-69316 You need to come and join us in the country Helen :) Can't blame you for staying in the new town with the yummy mummys though :) Thanks Sommer, it's a real challenge to start thinking differently but when you have the support from the council providing the bins etc it's far more manageable, I was in the same boat as Helen for years, recycling nothing. You need to come and join us in the country Helen :) Can’t blame you for staying in the new town with the yummy mummys though :)

Thanks Sommer, it’s a real challenge to start thinking differently but when you have the support from the council providing the bins etc it’s far more manageable, I was in the same boat as Helen for years, recycling nothing.

]]> By: Sommer http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-69244 Sommer Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:45:18 +0000 http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-69244 YEAH!!! I'm doing a little dance for you!!! What a huge difference you're making with this effort. We can all do something. Great work. Keep spreading the message. YEAH!!! I’m doing a little dance for you!!! What a huge difference you’re making with this effort. We can all do something. Great work. Keep spreading the message.

]]> By: Helen http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-69236 Helen Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:57:11 +0000 http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-69236 The rate you're going, it'll be like Tom and Barbara in The Good Life! I can't even persuade Edinburgh Council to give us recycling bins. They didn't reply when I emailed them about it. Result: our recycling activity is... zilch. Thank goodness some people are doing things properly. You put me to shame. One of my dreams is to have a house with a garden and a compost heap for recycling. Maybe one day..... sigh! The rate you’re going, it’ll be like Tom and Barbara in The Good Life!

I can’t even persuade Edinburgh Council to give us recycling bins.

They didn’t reply when I emailed them about it. Result: our recycling activity is… zilch.

Thank goodness some people are doing things properly. You put me to shame.

One of my dreams is to have a house with a garden and a compost heap for recycling. Maybe one day….. sigh!

]]> By: Little Mummy http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-69235 Little Mummy Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:35:44 +0000 http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-69235 I'm definitely hoping that I'll save some money, especially with growing stuff. I’m definitely hoping that I’ll save some money, especially with growing stuff.

]]> By: t-bird http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-69219 t-bird Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:48:53 +0000 http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-69219 Well, that's looking like a great plan! Ready meals are the biggest rip off going, bet you could make much nicer stuff for half the price. And you can always make extra and freeze in tubs for a quick meal another night. Watch out with Costco - it is way too tempting to spend a King's ransom in those places!!!!! You may also look at tearing the sticky area off envelopes then they can go in with the paper recycling. Sounds petty but if you get a lot of junk mail it adds up. Re-usable shopping bags give you a small corner in the bin that would otherwise be full of the nasty plastic ones that rip half way through the journey home. Watch your food waste, it adds up ridiculously fast some days (especially with a tot in the house) A lot isn't compostable normally but you could try a Bokashi bin which will work with all waste - it goes in teh special bin for 2 weeks then onto your normal compost after that (by which time it's no longer interesting to your local rat colony) Dare I mention nappies? Some eco-disposables are compostable if you can't face washables (or look at a nappy laundry service, the cost is comparable to disps and you don't have to mess about washing) And a Mooncup could save you a fortune as well as saving a small corner of the bin once a month. Well, that’s looking like a great plan! Ready meals are the biggest rip off going, bet you could make much nicer stuff for half the price. And you can always make extra and freeze in tubs for a quick meal another night. Watch out with Costco - it is way too tempting to spend a King’s ransom in those places!!!!!

You may also look at tearing the sticky area off envelopes then they can go in with the paper recycling. Sounds petty but if you get a lot of junk mail it adds up.

Re-usable shopping bags give you a small corner in the bin that would otherwise be full of the nasty plastic ones that rip half way through the journey home.

Watch your food waste, it adds up ridiculously fast some days (especially with a tot in the house) A lot isn’t compostable normally but you could try a Bokashi bin which will work with all waste - it goes in teh special bin for 2 weeks then onto your normal compost after that (by which time it’s no longer interesting to your local rat colony)

Dare I mention nappies? Some eco-disposables are compostable if you can’t face washables (or look at a nappy laundry service, the cost is comparable to disps and you don’t have to mess about washing) And a Mooncup could save you a fortune as well as saving a small corner of the bin once a month.

]]> By: Summer http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-69147 Summer Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:18:12 +0000 http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/12/09/recycle-reduce-re-use/#comment-69147 Sounds like you're well on your way! Another great thing is that you'll save a lot of moeny doing these things as well as being more environmental. :) Sounds like you’re well on your way! Another great thing is that you’ll save a lot of moeny doing these things as well as being more environmental. :)

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