by rachel | Mar 29, 2011 | Composting, Freegle/Freecycle, Green alternatives, Recycling, Reducing environmental impact, Reuse, Waste disposal
I share my house with about 20,000 worms. They live in a Can O Worms wormery composter (see picture). It’s a great composting solution for me because I haven’t got a garden big enough for a compost heap/bin, and because the organic waste I produce is all...
by rachel | Mar 25, 2011 | Composting, Using less
How do you decide when something is ‘worn out’? For me it has to be no longer capable of fulfilling its original function before I’ll call it done for (and then I can sometimes find another use for it). Now part of the function of (most) clothes is...
by rachel | Mar 22, 2011 | Decluttering, Freegle/Freecycle
This month, it was half a dozen presentation folders – card folders to present a file of papers attractively. I think I bought them about 23 years ago and they’ve been in the top drawer of my filing cabinet ever since. Didn’t look like I was ever...
by rachel | Mar 21, 2011 | Decluttering
I’m Rachel Papworth. I’m a bird-loving, green-minded, semi-vegan fitness freak living in wonderful Brighton (on the South coast of England), within walking distance of the sea and the South Downs National Park. I’m blogging as part of the process of...