Top ten strange ways to go green
You can’t say that we don’t think of inventive ways to help the planet.
I’ve been coming across more and more unusual techniques, so here are my top ten strange ways to go green.
Decide for yourself whether they’re easy or unthinkable for you!
Use Condoms. The top of the list appeared in The Sun this week – [...]
Birmingham parks for the week beginning 14th September
Kids might be back at school now, but there are still plenty of activities in our conservation areas that families can get involved with this weekend.
In Cannon Hill Park, take part in a walk around the park led by rangers, looking at the many tree varieties from cedars to sequoias. If you wish to join [...]
Huge Backing for Local Stations
Local people have two days left to let Centro know what should be prioritised in its planning for funding rail projects.
Birmingham Friends of the Earth, Moseley Forum and Kings Heath Business leaders have all teamed up to ensure local people’s voices are heard in the consultation currently under way.
In just over a month, over 700 [...]
Birmingham parks for the week beginning 31st August
After a quiet week in the West Midlands’ parks last week, Birmingham Recycled is back our annual roundup of activities you can get involved in.
There are several choices for you if your eager to get your hands dirty, starting with the Holders Lane Conservation Work Weekend in Cannon Hill Park. On Saturday and Sunday from [...]
Should we start them young?
Having just turned twenty, I can’t say that I have many friends who care about the environment as much as I do. In fact, many of them are quite open about the fact that they don’t care about recycling, their carbon emissions etc. To quote: “Nothing is going to happen in my lifetime, so why [...]
Top retail supermarkets team up with RWM for this year’s exhibition
This year’s Recycling Waste Management Exhibition (RWM) is creeping closer and closer to Birmingham’s NEC with less than an month to go before the big launch.
Set to take place on 15 – 17 September, RWM have prepared for a highly informative and interesting exhibition concerning environmental issues, with over exhibitors, a live recycling plant on [...]
Nappucino mornings aim to decrease landfill waste in Birmingham
Last Tuesday saw the introduction of a series of Nappucino mornings held specially for parents within Birmingham.
The event took place at Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre at 1:30pm hosted by the recycling department of Birmingham City Council.
The first Nappucino morning was focused on introducing the more recycle friendly ‘Real Nappy’ (which is reusable unlike the [...]
Aston University back green scheme for cars.
As mentioned recently on Birmingham Recycled in a post by Emma Williams, Birmingham is one of the leading UK cities aiming to clean up our Co2 emissions and make cars more eco friendly.
Students at Aston University have become involved with a project hoping to develop low carbon emitting transport for the UK.
This project is the biggest [...]