If you use notebooks, choose brands that use 100% recycled post-consumer waste paper, if you can. These are sometimes sold in shops, but easier to find online. Whether you use notebooks to make your to-do list and write down life plans, jot your thoughts or simply use for a shopping list, choosing recycled paper helps…
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Choose a Greener Style of Envelope
We all use envelopes to send letters. Of course, you can always use existing envelopes and then seal them again with plastic-free packing tape. And (we were surprised to learn this), you can recycle envelopes with plastic windows, as modern machinery can melt the adhesives and screen out the plastic, so don’t throw them, throw them…
Reasons to Give Up Social Media
Japan uses far less social media (image) Social media does not have many advantages, save creating a world of narcissists and people wasting countless hours on pointless stuff. Anything useful you can do on social media, you can do in real life. The man behind the campaign to give up social media is former Silicon…
How to Clean (and speed up) Your Laptop
Heather Stillufsen Often slow laptops are not broken, they can be ‘fixed to factory settings’ for £50 by taking it into a laptop repair shop for a professional clean. Always install recommended updates too and let your laptop have a rest to cool down (too much heat can damage the battery). Also read how to…
How to Prevent (and recycle) Techno Trash
Technotrash refers to the huge amount of e-waste like clunky desktop computers, printers, scanners, cables etc. What do you do with it? Don’t send it to Africa or Asia, that’s what. These continents don’t want all our rubbish. Ghana’s main ‘digital dumping ground’ at Agbogbloshie is where most of the world’s e-waste ‘goes to die’….