If, as a household, you’re not making much waste, share your brown, blue, blackbin, with friends, family, neighbours. Contact your local council to take your spare bin for re-use, saving both resources AND space.
12/11/21 Leafletting at Elvaston Castle (see Elv Castle page for more) Derbyshire county council have a display there from 10-4pm, with as little public notice as possible of course. And in the hours when a lot of people are at work. The plans are supported by the National Trust, who, effectively, are climate-crisis deniers. More soon
WATER – We are due in the UK to start running out of fresh water in the next 20 years (Environment Agency report today – 19/3/2019).Yet 20 Olympic swimming pools worth, are to be wasted every day at the Derby/Derbyshire incineration plant. (once they find another climate-denying, greenwash incineration company to run it) Multiply that by the other 50-odd burners in the UK and the many being touted, worldwide as ‘sustainable’ ‘waste to energy’, though mass balance reveals more energy wasted, than the tiny amount produced. Africa is due to run out of water even sooner, yet water-wasting development, such as incineration, is being promoted there & worldwide, by banks and companies which are ignoring the detrimental environmental effects. (Severn Trent warned in 2010 that over-abstraction was affecting the Derwent in the East Midlands) Aside from lobbying international, national, regional and local government, banks, companies etc to start saving water and not wasting it, what you can do in the home, below
GAS CENTRAL HEATING – If it is mild and CH not in use, switch off the pilot light. If everyone did this WOW
BATHROOM – Save water from the shower/bath, for watering the garden, flushing the toilet etc. This is easily done, with a bucket.
Avoid running the tap for more than in necessary.
NB BATHROOM TILES/GROUT – Make a paste from bicarbonate of soda & lemon juice, apply to grout with old toothbrush, leave for ten mins, or so, rinse off
KITCHEN – WASHING MACHINES – We have a Miele washing machine that has lasted TWENTY years. It weighs the washing to use the optimal amount of water for washing & rinsing. 95 degrees for nappies, 30 degree wash for least energy use.
Try to avoid dishwashers, they use more water & energy than hand-washing.
KITCHEN/GARDEN Make compost from kitchen/garden/veg peelings ‘waste’ . In #DerbyUK, the free brownbin for organics has just been returned to the local populace. (Brownbin was free for everyone, till the incineration contract was signed, then it was removed and charged for, leading to a massive drop in recycling, but more ‘organics’ for the incineration contract) Unfortunately brownbin is now by online registration only, instead of being returned, free, for the whole Derby city population.
Avoid peat products, like the plague.
Sign up for an allotment to grow your own, get healthier etc
COMPOST – sequesters carbon, alleviates #floodrisk, adds nutrients/organic matter to soil to #nourishtheworld, improve soil structure and water-retaining capacity, increases insect/dung beetle/worm populations thus aiding soil structure, assists in feeding the world, basically. Replaces artificial fertiliser, which is destroying world soils, kills worms (needed for soil structure etc) and run-off causes eutrophication ( deoxygenation of world oceans. (See ‘erosion page for IUCN report extract) Sadly, compost is not perceived as a monetary ‘technology’
Lobby world/national/regional/local governments for #climateactionnow
Derby, S Derbyshire + Swadlincote Unfriends the Burning Earth 