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Video: how to make the best compost
If you aren't doing it right, your compost bin can get pretty disgusting. Watch our Smart Tips video on how to get the balance of 'browns' and 'greens' just right.Posted: 18 June 2008
Britain dumping millions of PCs at tips
Millions of serviceable computers in the UK end up in landfill sites rather than being recycled, according to research sponsored by Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC).Posted: 11 March 2008
Femmecup Preview
Femmecup is a reusable menstrual cup -- a green alternative to disposable tamponsPosted: 27 March 2008
Wonderland: disappearing dresses and plastic bottles that make flowers grow
We're not making this up. A scientist and a fashion designer have invented a dress that dissolves in water and a plastic bottle that melts into a compound for growing seeds.Posted: 16 June 2008
Business: dishing the dirt on environmental league tables
...dirtiest power stations. And it has come in for criticism for dumping nuclear waste on its own doorstep, which Greenpeace says is leaking into the water table and...Posted: 11 June 2008
'Kitchen Revolution' recipes for less food waste
...a crime to throw it away. Not only because it's tasty, but also because it's a waste of natural resources not to use it up. It was therefore with great excitement...Posted: 05 June 2008
Photos: what plastic recycling numbers mean
To help recyclers, the plastics industry started a labelling system more than two decades ago, identifying the seven major types of plastics by number stamps. But what do the numbers mean?Posted: 13 June 2008
In brief: cardboard cradles, electric EcoBins and sustainable seagulls
...food and compacts cans and plastic bottles and thereby reduces the amount of waste that needs to be collected by the council. This of course is a good thing, but...Posted: 23 April 2008
Is burning waste the answer to landfill woes?
...Landfill Directive, the UK has to reduce the amount of biodegradable municipal waste sent to landfill in 2010 to 75 per cent of that produced in 1995, and by 2013...Posted: 08 May 2008
Ask SmartPlanet: what does WEEE mean for me?
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive helps you recycle your old electronics through shops and local councils.Posted: 20 June 2008
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