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How to green your space and live with plants Would you like to know some basic tips to keeping houseplants and growing your own indoor jungle? Whether you live in a small apartment or a large house, adding plants to your home will improve your health and wellbeing. Caring for a living thing and seeing it thrive and bloom is...

What is Second Hand September? Second Hand September is an initiative by Oxfam, which encourages people to say YES to second hand clothes for 30 days. The fashion industry might not be the first sector you think of when it comes to big polluters – but the sector is responsible for 10% of global pollution. Over 92 million tonnes of...

Zero Waste Week is taking place this week, the first full week in September.Zero Waste week was founded by Rachelle Strauss in 2008 and began as a national campaign in the UK. It is now recognised worldwide.You’ve no doubt heard of the three Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. These terms were first popularised in the late 1970s.In 2013, Bea Johnson...

Cigarette Butts Cigarette butts are actually the most abundant form of plastic waste in the world, with about 4.5 trillion individual butts polluting our global environment. They are made of cellulose acetate, a man-made plastic material, and contain hundreds of toxic chemicals. A San Diego State University study found that a single cigarette butt with traces of tobacco introduced into...

  Plastic Free July is a key initiative of the Plastic Free Foundation. It began in 2011 and now sees 326 million people from 117 countries get involved. Head to www.plasticfreejuly.org to sign up to the challenge through their website. You can try to cut down on your plastic use for 1 day, 1 week or for all of July....