Whether you’re upgrading your laptop, tablet or desktop, or simply looking to throw away a faulty computer, recycling your tech properly is incredibly important.
This guide will help you to prepare your computer for recycling and where to dispose of it correctly.
Wearing your paper hat and sharing a festive-themed joke is a classic pastime around many a Christmas dinner table. Despite concerns around their impact on the environment, here in the UK, we pull over 154 million Christmas crackers each year, proving that the snap of the season is here to stay.
Yet there are ways to ensure our Christmas crackers are more eco-friendly. Recyclable and plastic-free crackers are now easy to find in stores and online, while many people have even taken to making their own eco-friendly Christmas crackers.
Take a look at Forge Recycling’s favourite eco alternatives to Christmas crackers for you to enjoy this merry season.
Continue reading Five eco-friendly Christmas cracker alternatives this festive season
As Christmas rolls around and we begin to dig out the box(es) of decorations, you may find yourself longing for a fresh festive look.
Continue reading Six zero-waste Christmas decorations to make at home
As the season progresses and the temperature drops, you may start to find your car windows need a little attention before you head off to work in the morning.
In this blog post, we will delve into why one of the standard methods for defrosting a car window is terrible for the environment; offering some eco-friendlier alternatives for both the prevention of frost and defrosting once the ice has occurred.
Firstly though, let’s begin with the science.
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As parents, it’s crucial that we teach the concepts of reuse and recycling early on to our children, and what better way to do so than through fun kids’ craft ideas that reuse waste items?
In this blog post, we’ll explore four easy upcycling ideas for kids that they will love – from fairy houses to blossom-covered trees.
These upcycling ideas for children are perfect for a rainy day when you’re stuck indoors, need to keep the kids entertained, and want them to learn something.
Depending on your child’s age, you could boost the educational aspect of the projects by sitting with them and talking to them about the materials they are using — what their original purpose was, and why it’s important to consider every purchase carefully and reuse waste where we can.
Before we jump into the ideas, here’s a quick safety note. Please supervise your children at all times when crafting and help them, as required, when they are using scissors, glue, and other potentially dangerous items.
With that said, let’s get eco-crafting!
It is estimated that 2 million pieces of litter are dropped daily across the UK; a shocking statistic when you consider the size of our island and the number of people who must be dropping that litter.
Litter is unsightly, but that isn’t the only issue; it is also terrible for the environment.
Being a crime, littering can be reported in the UK so, in this blog post, we will explore what litter is, what the fine is for dropping it, and how you can report incidents of littering in your local area.
Firstly, let’s begin with the basics.
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WRAP estimated that the UK created around 9.5 million tonnes of food waste in 2018, with 70 per cent of that total intended to be consumed by humans. This total doesn’t include the waste redistributed as animal feed or via charity and commercial routes.
While the 2018 figure was down from 10 million tonnes in 2015, I think we can all agree that action urgently needs to be taken to dramatically reduce the volume of food waste being created in this country.
Hospitality and food service contribute 12 per cent of the country’s total food wastage, which costs the sector approximately £682 million annually.
This blog post will explore why food waste in restaurants and cafes needs to be reduced and how that can be achieved.
Continue reading Reduce food waste in your restaurant or café in just 10 easy steps
It’s estimated that 75 per cent of the population requires vision correction, with around 64 per cent of people choosing to wear glasses to correct their vision and 11 per cent opting for contact lenses — either solely or alongside eyeglasses.
With so many of us wearing spectacles and having annual eye tests, glasses can, unfortunately, become ineffectual for the individual they were made for within just one year.
Often made from metal or plastic, glasses can’t just be thrown in your household recycling bin, so many people are left wondering, ‘where can I recycle spectacles?’
You’d be amazed at how many pairs of old prescription glasses are lurking at the back of drawers in houses across the country.
So, in this article, we’ll take a look at where to recycle spectacles — whether it is prescription or reading glasses you need to dispose of.
Like most beach resorts across the UK, Cleethorpes is, unfortunately, no stranger to litter — especially on hot days when people head to the beach in their thousands.
It’s no wonder people flock to Cleethorpes beach when the sun makes an appearance, though — it’s beautiful and award-winning, with The Trainline naming it the second-best beach in the UK in 2021 — ahead of Blackpool, Filey and Skegness.
In this blog post, we’ll explore the litter problem in Cleethorpes and why solving it is so vital to the area.
Continue reading A quick guide to the litter problem in Cleethorpes
Back in 2019, we shared five reuse ideas for single-use plastic bottles on the blog, and a lot of you found it helpful.
Today, we are back with eight more clever ways to reuse your plastic bottles.
The bottles used for bottled water and other drinks are sadly intended to be single-use, so avoiding them altogether would be the best move for the environment.
However, we know that, realistically, a plastic bottle may be the only way for you to purchase your favourite drink on the go.
In which case, why not reuse the bottle when it’s empty and clean — giving it another lease of life, rather than sending it straight for recycling?
