Environment
Eco Tip – Waste Food
IT’S TIME FOR the New Year’s resolutions: please put reducing food waste at the top of your list. Nine and a half million tonnes of food is discarded in the UK each year, with 6.5 […]
Day: 4 November 2022
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Eco Tip – Spare a thought for the birds…
CAVERSHAM IS blessed with large public open spaces for dogs to race around. Within the town there are the floodplain meadows along the Thames, and a trio of grassland, woodland and scrub areas along the […]
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Eco Tip – The three Ps
THAMES WATER has been running some amusing TV adverts with a serious message in recent months. Every day they deal with around 200 sewer blockages, many of them the consequence of people using their toilets […]
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Eco Tip – Save energy and money with the weekly wash
THIS ECOTIP is based on a January 2022 report by Which? It can be read without being a Which? Member on www.which.co.uk/news/2021/08/cut-your-laundry-costs-by-100-per-year It offers the following key points. On average, switching from 40°C to 30°C […]
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Eco Tip – Standby to switch off
HEATING BILLS are falling for the summer months, but your house still consumes more energy than it needs to if everything stays on standby. It may only be a few pence a day, but it […]
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Eco Tip – Reduce boiler temperature to save energy
LOADS OF organisations tell you to turn the room thermostat down to save energy and money, but we hope we won’t need to use the central heating for the next few months! There are other […]
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Eco Tip – Saving Energy in the Kitchen
THE MYTHICAL ‘average’ family is supposed to use 25% of their energy in the kitchen. There are savings to be made through changing habits. The big ones are teaching all the members of the household […]
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Eco Tip – Low Energy Lighting
COMPACT fluorescent light bulbs (CFL) used at least 60% less energy than old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs and lasted 10,000 hours. The newer Light Emitting Diode lights (LED) use up to 90% less energy than CFLs […]
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Eco Tip – Take action on draughts
EVEN IF YOU have a modern house with double glazing and cavity wall insulation, you may be losing expensive heat due to draughts. The older the house, the more likely it is there will be […]
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Eco Tip – Autumn preparations for gardeners
THIS YEAR nearly half of Europe has suffered drought conditions, and this kind of drizzle-free summer is predicted to be the new normal. We can expect new reservoirs and desalination plants to be built and […]