This week is National Children’s Gardening Week and I’ve been making some videos about helping wildlife in your garden. My first video was about plants for wildlife. My second video is about some ideas for upcycling in your garden. Here it is! I hope you enjoyed watching it and I hope it’s given you someContinue reading “National Children’s Gardening Week: Upcycling in the Garden”
Category Archives: Reusing and Recycling
Helping The Planet At Christmas
People are kind to each other at Christmas BUT at Christmas you often aren’t very kind to the planet! Did you know, an extra 30% of rubbish is produced and thrown away over Christmas compared with the rest of the year? That’s about 3 million tonnes of extra waste! This article is about some waysContinue reading “Helping The Planet At Christmas”
Milk Machine
I found out when I went to Cornish Stores in Boscastle that they have a milk machine in the back left corner! The first time you use it you buy a glass bottle and fill it with milk using the machine and you keep reusing the same bottle every time you go there. Every timeContinue reading “Milk Machine”
Upcycling a T-Shirt
I found a blue t-shirt in my chest of drawers and I didn’t really want to wear it because it was just plain. So I decided to make a hedgehog top out of it! First, me and Danny and Jake drew round our hands to make templates for the hedgehog’s prickles and I drew aContinue reading “Upcycling a T-Shirt”
Reusable Kitchen Roll
We have made some reusable kitchen roll. We made it instead of using paper kitchen rolls which are disposable and waste trees and usually come wrapped in plastic which is also bad. We made them out of old towels with holes in and old t-shirts and tops. This reused the clothes as well, which isContinue reading “Reusable Kitchen Roll”
Masks, Gloves and Wipes
Yesterday we went litter picking by the sea. As well as all the other rubbish, we found four disposable face masks, one glove, loads of disposable wipes and the nozzle from a soap or hand gel bottle. People are using lots of face masks at the moment because of the Coronavirus, which is mainly whyContinue reading “Masks, Gloves and Wipes”
Plastic Free July
Plastic Free July is a chance to try to start using less single-use plastic. Single-use plastic means things like straws or plastic bottles that are only used once and then thrown away. Single-use plastic is bad for the planet because it is only used once but it lasts forever! It can end up in theContinue reading “Plastic Free July”
Using Beeswax Wraps
Today we went out and took a packed lunch with us and we wrapped it in our homemade beeswax wraps! We wrapped mini pizzas and cucumber in them. We had one wrap each filled with mini pizzas and we used it as a plate as well. We put all the food rubbish on one beeswaxContinue reading “Using Beeswax Wraps”
Beeswax Wraps
Today we made some beeswax wraps. You can wrap food and sandwiches in them to keep them fresh, instead of using cling film. Cling film is made from plastic and you only use it once. If it ended up in the sea it might look like a jellyfish and then a turtle or another seaContinue reading “Beeswax Wraps”
Reusing Plastic Milk Bottles
It’s very important to reuse as much plastic as you can because plastic doesn’t break down so plastic rubbish stays in the environment for a really long time. Reusing as much plastic as possible means you don’t have to buy more plastic. It’s best to try not to buy plastic to help the planet. ThisContinue reading “Reusing Plastic Milk Bottles”
