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 Topic: bio-degradable - good or bad? |
Trev
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 Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Thu Jun 19, 08 9:47 am Subject: bio-degradable - good or bad? |
| Bring back the delivery "boy" on a bike. A standard size delivery box loyalty scheme - where they drop of the box and you return the previous empty box. Butcher, baker, grocer, fish monger, farm sho ... |
| Topic: bio-degradable - good or bad? |
Trev
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Fri Jun 06, 08 9:22 am Subject: bio-degradable - good or bad? |
I use cornstarch bags from:
http://www.naturalcollection.com/natural-products/Better-Value-Cornstarch-Sacks-Biodegradable.aspx
to line my kitchen compost bin/caddy thingy before carting the stuf ... |
| Topic: bio-degradable - good or bad? |
Trev
Replies: 52
Views: 41962
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Thu May 22, 08 10:15 am Subject: bio-degradable - good or bad? |
| Exactly, just how "green" is this packaging is highly questionable. With regards to corn starch based packaging was the crop grown specifically for packaging or is it a side/waste product of another ... |
| Topic: Breadmaker on the blink |
Trev
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Wed May 14, 08 2:47 pm Subject: Breadmaker on the blink |
Mine is wholemeal with a 'dollop' of white - my Kenwood recipe says only to rise it for 1.5 hrs. Is that maybe why the bread is a bit heavy? The kids have been moaning and we're back on sliced 
Y ... |
| Topic: bio-degradable - good or bad? |
Trev
Replies: 52
Views: 41962
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Wed May 14, 08 2:28 pm Subject: bio-degradable - good or bad? |
Just to throw this into the discussion:
http://www.greenlivingtips.com/articles/197/1/Degradable-Biodegradable-Compostable.html |
| Topic: How much insulation do you have in your loft |
Trev
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Wed May 14, 08 2:09 pm Subject: How much insulation do you have in your loft |
| 100mm of standard fibreglass, but I’m not happy with the quality… but nowt I can do about it until I sort out getting access to the other half of my attic (thanks to little thought having been put int ... |
| Topic: Design student wants to bring the larder to the masses! |
Trev
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Wed May 14, 08 1:54 pm Subject: Design student wants to bring the larder to the masses! |
We have a larder... of sorts.
We're in Berkshire. Our house was built in the 50/60s and the larder sits in the corner of the kitchen. But there are a few flaws with the idea - its against a south ... |
| Topic: Banning incandescent light bulbs |
Trev
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Wed May 14, 08 11:42 am Subject: Banning incandescent light bulbs |
| We've got a bit of a thing about "Tiffany" style lamps and find that low energy bulbs just don't fit - even the "micro" ones have overly bulbous (pardon the pun) bases to accommodate the integral chok ... |
| Topic: It's Not Easy Being Green - Series Two |
Trev
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Tue Jun 05, 07 12:14 pm Subject: It's Not Easy Being Green - Series Two |
| Right, I have several ideas now of how to increase the thermal capture, storage capacity & insulation of my fledgling greenhouse to see me in salad at Christmas... but I was looking into PV Cell p ... |
| Topic: It's Not Easy Being Green - Series Two |
Trev
Replies: 44
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Fri Mar 30, 07 10:37 am Subject: It's Not Easy Being Green - Series Two |
| Ok, so some sort of photovoltaic powered low rated fan pumps air from the apex of the sturcture to an insulated box in the ground to maintain enough residual heat to beat off frost etc. |
| Topic: It's Not Easy Being Green - Series Two |
Trev
Replies: 44
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Fri Mar 30, 07 9:32 am Subject: It's Not Easy Being Green - Series Two |
| Well, I caught the last few minutes of last night's episode of INEBG and saw them digging a hole in the bottom of a greenhouse, bunging a fan fed pipe & insulation - soemthing about a heat well or ... |
| Topic: Horseradish Clearout Again... |
Trev
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Forum: Trading Post Posted: Fri Nov 18, 05 9:47 am Subject: Horseradish Clearout Again... |
I would like to be considered for the results of the next cull - I'll have to think of a trade.
Old trick for keep such things where you want is to bury an old bucket with the bottom cut out up to ... |
| Topic: Curing a hand of Pork |
Trev
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Fri Nov 18, 05 9:04 am Subject: Curing a hand of Pork |
Pigs have hands now?!  Damn'd geneticists!!!  |
| Topic: Passion for pumpkin? |
Trev
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Forum: Seasonal and Frugal Shopping Posted: Mon Oct 31, 05 1:53 pm Subject: Passion for pumpkin? |
| Having carved our only pumpkin from this years "crop" (is it possible to have a crop of one?) into a Jack-o-lantern (sp?) we've missed out on pumpkin pie but we have a whole load of seeds to ensure a ... |
| Topic: Cow guts power trains |
Trev
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Thu Oct 27, 05 8:44 am Subject: Cow guts power trains |
I was most annoyed at the reporter's attitude to the CEO of Svensk Biogas: "You don't have to look far beneath the number-crunching CEO to find the muesli-crunching environment-lover."
It's the con ... |
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