Green England Tips
How to live a more ethical and eco-friendly life
Listed below are all our tips in the category 'Recycling':
| #8 | Glass can be re-used (use glass jars for storage) or recycled indefinitely with no loss of quality. Recycled glass melts at lower temperatures than raw materials used to make new glass, thus using less energy. |
| #13 | When you have finished with your mobile phone, find a way to recycle it. Many charities take them or look online to find companies ready and willing to take your phone and may be even pay you for it. |
| #18 | Always recycle tins - it takes 95% less energy to recycle an empty can than making one from scratch |
| #31 | Take clothes to the local charity shop when you have finished with them, or if they are too worn or damaged take them to a clothing bank where the fibres will be re-used. Or use them for cleaning cloths. |
| #36 | Take used playstation, x-box etc games to a shop that buys secondhand. Recycles, gets money back and you can buy more games - ideally secondhand. |
| #52 | Re-use envelopes by carefully peeling off the address label or sticking a fresh label over the address - made from the reverse side of no longer needed printed paper. |
| #53 | If you do need to buy a book rather than get it from the library, check out online secondhand book stores or secondhand book shops in your local town. |
| #54 | Don't put your used printer cartridges in the bin where they end up in landfill for 500 years. Find a company to send them to that recycles them. Some organisations use the proceeds from this for charity. |
| #57 | Re-use plastic packaging wherever possible e.g for sandwiches and other packed lunch items. |
| #66 | If you have old electrical equipment to dispose of, ask at your local electrical store if they take electrical equipment to be recycled. Many now do. |
| #75 | A tissue takes 3 months to decompose, a piece of paper 4 months, a plastic bottle 10 years, glass - several centuries. Reduce, Re-use,Recycle. |
| #85 | You can get up to £100 for your old mobile phone and have it recycled at the same time. So if you have an old mobile in your drawer or are thinking about changing your phone find out more |
| #106 | If you are fed up with putting polythene wrappings in the bin - you don't have to. Recycle both printed and unprinted polythene wrappers and bags by sending it to Polyprint |
| #110 | If you are unsure where your nearest recycling centre is or how to recycle a particular item - go on the Recycle More website to get recycling information local to you. |
| #134 | If your CDs are really no good for the charity shop then see www.reuze.co.uk for ideas on recycling or re-using CDs. |