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Going green is much easier than most people think plus is has enormous benefits for us personally as well as environmentally. Each one of us can make a difference this Christmas festive season if you commit to not contributing to un-earth-friendly acts such as excessive energy consumption and waste generation. According to the eco friendly experts Lynn Colwell and Corey Colwell-Lipson, co-authors of ‘Celebrate Green’, we all have a responsibility to go green which includes at holiday celebrations. You can even save time and money while contributing to saving mother earth.

The December holiday period sees a landfill increase of 25% more litter which furthers global warming through off-gassing. You can enjoy Christmas and holiday celebrations while being good to the planet with just a few changes. With the tips below you can start an earth-friendly Christmas that will reduce your carbon foot print, create minimum impact on the earth and the good news is that it is easy, affordable, fun and rewarding.

1. Buy local and buy fresh – you will contribute to reducing long transportation use of resources. Also jet-setting food and other goods create tons of carbon dioxide emissions that could be avoided by buying locally produced items.

2. Trim your food shopping. The amount of food waste at Christmas is excessive. Start by trimming 20% off your list. Your guests won’t notice 20% and you’ll be contributing to less wastage. Use a shopping list and do not impulse buy and commit that you will not purchase anything outside your list no matter how enticing it looks.

3. Say no to wrapping paper. Try wrapping gifts in other gifts or hiding gifts in a sock, a bag or pot for extra fun. Engage your creativity. Make a Santa bag for each child that is re-used each year. Cut up old clothes and use the material to wrap your gifts.

4. Go for quality not quantity. Purchase long lasting gifts rather than breakables and consider making your own gifts. You can save money, gifts will have more meaning and are more likely to be cherished. If you have to buy gifts buy those made locally and choose ones that will last like wooden gifts rather than the latest gadgets that will be obsolete tomorrow and end up in land fill.

5. Re-use the same Christmas decorations, tableware and games/activities each year. Children love predictability and you create traditions with greater meaning when using the same soon to be treasured items each year. Remember if you need to purchase new items ensure they are a good quality that can be re-used year after year.

6. Recycle – this helps divert unnecessary waste from landfill. Ensure you separate your rubbish for recycling. Don’t fall in to the ‘lazy’ or ‘I’m too busy’ trap at Christmas. Remember your choices make a difference.

7. Time your lighting. Get yourself a timer and set it to turn your Christmas lights off after a maximum of 5 hours each night. Leaving them on for hours on end is excessive and unnecessary. The best option for outdoors is to get solar powered Christmas lights which are now available in all sorts of shapes and colors.

Making your own gifts, buying locally, buying less, re-using what you already have are all great ways you can start contributing to a eco friendly Christmas that will help preserve resources and reduce waste. Plus adults will become good role models for the benefits of getting back to basics with moderation and thinking of and contributing to the greater good! Merry Christmas!

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Unless you live in a cave on a remote island, without any method of communicating with the outside world, you will know that global warming and resource depletion are environmental issues that are not about to go away.

The environment has steadily moved its way up everyone’s agenda as we are more conscious about recycling and the amount of energy and water we waste.

With so much information bombarding our senses on environmental issues, there’s no doubt about it, understanding how best to ‘green up’ our lifestyle can be difficult and confusing.

We can all learn a lesson from big business, which has realised that by applying some commonsense to how they operate, they can improve their image, satisfy the demands of increasingly ‘eco-aware’ shareholders, and meet the increasing ‘green’ demands of customers by making changes to many of the products we buy from them. However, the key factor with business is improving their ‘bottom-line’. If being greener cost them more, they would be highly unlikely to make changes.

For those of us that care about trying to ‘do our bit’ for the environment, but not necessarily classifying ourselves as ‘rainbow warriors’ or ‘tree huggers’, we face a dilemma. What can we do to make a difference, without going so far as building a composting toilet in our gardens?

There is nothing wrong about modeling our approach to being greener on how the big corporations are approaching the matter. Essentially the key way they are doing this is by cutting out waste to become more efficient.

Here are three top tips on how to green up your lifestyle and save money.

1: Reduce the Amount of Food You Throw-away

In the UK, 30% of all the food we buy is thrown away. The food waste will generally end up in landfill, where as it degrades turns into a greenhouse gas about 19 times more potent than the carbon dioxide everyone associates with global warming.

There are a number of reasons why we throw away so much of the food we buy. When food reaches ‘best before’ date, there is no need to consign it to the rubbish bin. Best before is a ‘quality’ cut off point set by the manufacturers. If the food has been stored properly it will still be edible some time after that date.

We often buy too much food at the supermarket, possibly due to those irresistible BOGOF offers (buy one get one free). Write a list and try sticking to it.

Most of us have our fridges set at the wrong temperature. For optimum performance they should be set between 3-5 degrees Celsius.

If you apply the ‘bottom-line’ rule, it is clear that if you throw-away 30% of the food you buy, you are wasting 30% of your money.

Do a quick calculation to see how much you are throwing away each year. If you spend £80 per week on food for you and your family then you’re wasting £1,248 per year of your hard-earned cash.

2: Improve the Energy Efficiency of Your Home

Energy efficiency in the home is all about reducing waste.

If your home is poorly insulated, e.g.: little or no loft insulation; has un-insulated cavity walls, or draughty doors and windows, then you are literally throwing your money away by helping to heat the outside of your house!.

Call your local Council and ask for energy efficiency for advice. If you can’t get assistance there, contact a registered and approved insulation company and ask for free survey of your property. There are usually grants available to assist off-setting the cost.

If you run your central heating with an old boiler, you will need to replace it at some point. When it finally expires, ensure that the replacement boiler is not ‘over-sized’ for you property, as this will cost you money in the long-run, as it will not be operating efficiently.

Make sure you have programmer and room thermostat fitted to control your boiler. Thermostatic radiators valve will also help save you money and help control the temperature in your home more effectively.

Take a look at the insulation on your hot water tank. If it is poorly insulated with ill-fitting jacket, have a replacement fitted.

Fit low energy lighting where possible. The quality, look and performance of low energy lighting is improving all the time. Fit low energy lighting to as many lighting points as possible, e.g. in the hall, bedrooms, bathrooms, outside, cloakrooms, landing.

You will be surprised how much money you can save by investing in making improvements to the energy efficiency of your home.

On a four bedroom detached house built in the early 1980′s with some loft insulation and the original boiler, you could save £400 per year on fuel bills by increasing the loft insulation, installing cavity wall insulation, fitting low energy lights and replacing the boiler with more efficient model.

3: Replace Your Gas Guzzler

With price of a barrel of oil spiraling upwards, there has never been a more important time for us to look at the fuel efficiency of the car we drive.

With petrol at over £6 per gallon you do not need to be Albert Einstein to work out that by looking to improve the fuel efficiency of the car we drive can save us some serious money.

If you drive a car that manages 35 miles to the gallon and you drive 10,000 miles per annum, then your fuel costs will be about £1,715 per year at current petrol prices.

When you replace your car and buy a model that achieves 45 miles to the gallon then you will save about £400 in a year.

There are lots more green measures you can take, each requiring a small change in your lifestyle and personal habits. How far you go is upto you, but by addressing these three issues first, you will make a difference to the environment and save money at the same time.

Bill Bailey is freelance writer on finance, cars, travel, computers and shopping. More of Bill’s articles offering red hot tips and advice can be found at [http://www.schnafflehound.com]

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The United Kingdom produces 434 million tons of waste each year. That will fill the Albert Hall each 2 hours.

Householders produce about 30,000,000 tonnes about annually. 73% of this waste goes to landfill, although ninety percent of it actually is recoverable and may be recycled, reused or composted. Landfill remains the principal way of handling most of the waste in the United Kingdom. Landfill tax was introduced in 1996 in an effort to cut the amount of waste going to landfill.

Landfill Gas ( Methane ) One tonne of waste tipped in a landfill produces between two hundred and four hundred cubic metres of landfill gas. Landfill sites released 32% of the UK’s methane emissions in 2009. Methane is about twenty-one times more strong than carbon-dioxide and permitting methane to flee into the atmosphere has heavy planetary warming consequences.

Landfill Leachate During landfill site operation, a liquid known as ‘Leachate ‘ is produced. This is a mix of organic degradation products, liquid waste and rain water. Leachate is intensely variable in composition dependent on the character of the waste in the landfill and the landfill design, but generally it has high organic carbon content, significant amounts of nitrogen and is mostly a little acidic.

Landfills are designed and operate to seal the waste as much as practicable from the encompassing environment. Central to this environmental protection is avoiding groundwater contamination.

Recycle

The more rubbish, waste and junk that gets recycled is the less that has to go to landfill. This in turn means less methane is released, causing less global warming, and less leachate seeping into the earth and damaging our already fragile eco system.

My name is Martin Harris. I am the founder of an eco friendly company called called Eco Rubbish Clearance – http://ecorubbishclearance.co.uk The company was started with an aim to providing a green alternative to conventional skip hire.

Recycling has never been so important. We need to cut back on landfill deposits and find new ways to reuse and recycle unwanted things. Visit our website to find out what the future of waste management looks like. http://ecorubbishclearance.co.uk From small acorns, mighty oaks grow…

Many gardeners already know the value of the rich, dark, earthy material created by composting. It is one of the best mulches and richest fertilizers – and it’s cheap. In fact, you can make it for free.

It works by providing food for microorganisms and these microorganisms produce nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus naturally for the soil, improving soil fertility.

Apart from being good for the environment, composting is also economically sensible, helping to reduce the pressure on landfills which, once full, pose problems for local government. It is not easy finding new sites for landfills.

Did you know that almost half of the average rubbish bag can be composted and most is not?

Given our environmental pressures this does not make sense. Worse still, when it comes to landfills garden waste and kitchen scraps break down into methane, a potentially explosive greenhouse gas, and leachate which can pollute our water. This is why composting – and recycling in a garden compost bin – is such a good thing to do for our environment.

However, if you are handling compost, you need to take some basic health and safety precautions. Garden compost contains various living organisms. On rare occasions, these have been associated with illness and allergies in humans particularly people with compromised immune systems or respiratory illness. And because of this, it is important to always:

1. Wash your hands after handling compost. Compost contains bacteria and this can react with your skin.

2. Wear proper protective gloves at all times, and especially if your skin is broken or if the garden compost is hot).

3. Avoid working with compost in confined spaces.

4. Keep your compost moist to prevent spores and dust flying in your face. (And it helps keep the bacteria composting because bacteria stops when it gets too dry.)

5. Wear a face mask.

Alan Paterson is the Managing Director of Compost Oven Pty Ltd, Australia’s leading supplier of hot composting solutions. Do the right thing by the environment and talk to us about compost bins today.

Skip hire isn’t simply about consigning huge volumes of waste to landfill. Companies offering this service have certain responsibilities, not least that they should make every effort to properly dispose of all products. This means sorting general waste from recyclable materials and ensuring that it is all disposed of effectively; so is it sustainable?

The skip hire company will often have a special sorting site to remove any items that can be recycled. This means that things aren’t unnecessarily consigned to landfill, which does help the sustainability of skip hire hugely. In fact, in many instances, after sorting out all of the waste, you’ll often find that the majority is actually able to be recycled – this of course is far more environmentally friendly.

A skip is a great way of removing a huge volume of waste from a site without having to make numerous journeys to the local waste refuse centre. So if you’re doing a house clearance, a little bit of building work or any other task that is likely to create its fair share of debris, it’s the ideal way to get it removed without ferrying back and forth continuously.

Again, this adds to the sustainability of the entire process. Not only is it faster but you won’t be constantly driving between your site and the local dump – therefore lowering the emissions being generated during your work. This might only be a partial saving, but little factors like this do plenty to add to the sustainability of the process as a whole.

Convenience is obviously one of the major draws of skip hire. It is an affordable way of keeping a clear site and getting rid of all unneeded rubbish. Your only issue is ensuring that you have the necessary permits (if it is being left in a public location), arranging a drop-off time and making sure there’s space for it. Once it’s on site, you can get on with clearing away the rubbish and await collection.

Builders, tradesmen and home owners often call on the services of skip hire companies to deal with their waste management. It’s a logical step. You do have to be a little careful with what you throw away though. There are certain hazardous materials that many providers won’t accept; these include chemicals, solvents, tyres, paint, asbestos and batteries.

The reason why these materials and other appliances, such as monitors and freezers, aren’t accepted is purely down to the ease with which it can be dealt with. More often than not these will need to be properly separated and dealt with responsibly – this can take time and cost money. More often than not, the skip hire company will stipulate what you can’t throw away and if they do find these within the container they may refuse to collect or charge you extra for proper disposal.

So with all things considered, skip hire is an extremely sustainable way of dealing with your waste. It cuts down on pollution and unnecessary landfill tipping. Your rubbish can be properly sorted and dealt with in a way that is environmentally friendly and efficient.

Vincent Rogers is a freelance writer who writes for a number of UK businesses. For professional waste management services, plant hire and Skip For Hire UK services he recommends Nationwide Hire.

The workplace generates a lot of waste. No matter whether you work in an office, warehouse, factory or outside, waste is a natural by-product of nearly every occupation.

A lot of what we throw away when we are at work, however, can be recycled and it is increasingly important that we think abut the environment when we are at work – especially considering the amount of time many of us spend there.

One of the biggest wastages in the workplace is the amount of paper we get through. Even though everything is computerised these days, we still are using just as much – if not more – paper than ever.

And not enough of us are recycling it either and this is a terrible waste as paper is one of the easiest of our resources to recycle. Recycling bins and paper recycling bins should be in the corner of nearly every office. So much paper gets thrown away that if all workplaces ensured it went in the recycling bin it would make a huge difference in the waste that ends up on landfill sites – and the number of trees cut down.

But its no just paper that is a nuisance to the environment. Many workplaces have vending machines and while these are very convenient for a quick cuppa the polystyrene and plastic cups that are used mainly end up on landfills – where they can longer for decades.

These can be recycled and many vending machine manufacturers are using more eco friendlier materials to make the little cups from. Placing cup collectors near the vending machines and canteen to catch the empties will ensure that these extremely numerous cups end up recycled not in the rubbish bin.

Cans from vending machines, too, can be recycled; can collectors will ensure the empties get taken away for recycling.

There are other ways of being a little more eco friendly at work too, such as making use of email and electric means rather than the printer and making sure you don’t waste paper unnecessarily. The culmination of this, and all other recycling tips is that less rubbish gets chucked away in the skip or external bin.

Richard N Williams is interested in waste bins and rubbish removal. Please visit us website if you are interested in Recycling bins a or other rubbish bins.

Rubbish removal in Sydney has changed significantly in the past few years.

Mainly because the laws around rubbish have also changed. We are in a more environmentally conscious world. Australia as a country is one of the leaders in working towards reducing carbon footprints and being environmentally respectful. And NSW and Sydney specifically are in alignment with that. I have been an independent Rubbish Removal contractor for over 20 years. So I have seen a lot of change over that time.

What I want to share with you in this article, are some key elements about ‘the back end’ – where your rubbish goes, how it is being treated. All in keeping with both removing waste and also disposing of it responsibly.

Waste Facilities Sydney

There are over 12 waste recycling, processing and disposing facilities serving Sydney and beyond. Each site has specific types of waste they will and will not receive.

There is also a Native seedling nursery at Lucas Heights where they grow native plants to rehabilitate closed landfills.

There are four landfill sites across Sydney currently open that are designed in such a way as too minimize the amount of space used, yet maximize the amount of time the landfill will remain open for operation.

There are waste receivals areas at the sites that are designed to reduce the amount of vehicle movement and providing waste streaming services.

WSN pioneered the Green Energy generation from waste in NSW in 1994, this process is spread across the sites, and generates energy to power up to 30,000 homes!

How Good Are Australians At Recycling?

In NSW, households are recycling up to 46% of their waste. Australians are the best newspaper recyclists in the world – recycling 74% of their newspapers in 2005.

In 2005 Australians also recycled 2.3 billion aluminum cans, which is 600 million more than 10 years ago!

Australians are the highest producers of waste, per person, in the world. Unfortunately it is estimated that over 7 billion cigarette butts end up in Australian waterways, streets and park lands each year. 80 Million plastic bags also end up as litter – which threatens marine life.

Recycling one tonne of plastic will save enough energy to run a refrigerator for a month! Recyclable material makes up almost 80% of total household waste.

Rubbish Removal Sydney – What You Can Do To Help

Above, I was sharing some facts and figures that are related more to household rubbish. Someone like myself are generally called to clear bigger items of rubbish. Such things are household furniture or appliances you no longer want. Some other waste types are:

- Rubbish from a renovation.

- Rubbish from a demolition.

- Rubbish from Commercial Premises – such as old files, computers, office equipment.

Some of the important things for you the client to know, is to clearly detail to someone like myself :

- what the rubbish removed is.

- how much of it there is.

- and what the access to your property or office is like.

Now these are not difficult details to supply. What supplying such details will do, will be that it will enable me as a waste management contractor to work out how best to approach your job, and also what tip I will need to visit to dispose of the rubbish.

These are all things that factor in your quote for the job. I think you will find with both someone like myself, or any of my colleagues – and I do belong myself to a group of independent contractors – as honestly (we’re biased) we believe we do a better job, as we are more customer focused, than the bigger Sydney rubbish removal organizations. And I certainly maintain that no job is too hard – that it is always about a solution. And getting the job done quickly, expertly and leaving you with a clean space where there was once rubbish.

So providing a great waste disposal service is both about quality service and attractive pricing – which as an independent I have the flexibility to do.

So Rubbish Removal Sydney need not be a “rubbish task” – instead it is one that I definitely look forward to assisting customers with.

Mark Wilkins
Rubbish Removal
Rubbish Removal Sydney