Engaging the the public on e-waste using the mighty Hypnocat with Scott Butler
If your senses have ever been assaulted by a psychedelic pink cat rapping about recycling your electronics, then Scott Butler, Executive Director at Material Focus,...
Make Sustainability Easy!
Nov 2, 2023
I've just popped over to my local Morrison's to grab some ingredients for dinner. I've recently started collecting soft plastics for recycling at supermarkets as...
Sustainability musings from the West Coast of Scotland
Jun 6, 2022
I'm busy wading through a wall of e-mails following a wonderfully relaxing half-term holiday on the Craignish peninsula. Our rented old farmhouse overlooked an overlapping...
Stop dissing recycling!
Oct 26, 2021
Yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson bullishly overrode the opinions of the expert sitting next to him and told a group of schoolkids that recycling "doesn't...
Does ‘upcycling’ actually exist?
Jun 17, 2021
Every time I hear or read a reference to 'upcycling', my instinctive response is "Really?" The word is often used by chi-chi second hand furniture...
Making Sustainability Easy (pt 357)
Apr 26, 2021
I'm still up to my eyeballs in the local election campaign. One of the issues we are campaigning on is the very poor recycling system...
The Year of Sustainability starts to build momentum
Feb 2, 2021
Well, it's been quite a year here at Terra Infirma Towers already, and we're only just into February. You may have noticed that my usual...
Plastics recycling *isn’t* a scam…
Sep 16, 2020
Oh dear. Nothing like a journalist who doesn't understand statistics– or deliberately misunderstands them in search of a cheap headline. Arwa Mahdawi, writing in today's...
Book Review: Rummage by Emily Cockayne
Aug 24, 2020
I'm writing this blog in what appears to be the only house in our Victorian neighbourhood which managed to hold on to its wrought iron...
School of Mum & Dad, week 1
Mar 27, 2020
Like many parents around the globe, Mrs K and I have been landed with the job of educating our brood ourselves. And what a week....