Supporting Charity with Recycling

Our regular Dad blogger Gav McCann talks about his love of charity shops for out Green Parenting/Green Lifestyle month.

Ever noticed how weird some people get about charity shops? Those people for whom the mere suggestion of wearing clothes that are pre-owned and resold by a charitable organisation is something to turn your nose up at? And it gets weirder – these are often the very same people who’ll spend a fortune on pre-owned clothes from trendy ‘vintage’ clothes (more…)

It pays to be green!

Beky Daly from wearewildthings.blogspot.com tells us why it pays to be green!

I think a lot of parents consider that being ‘green’ costs a fortune. While I’m sure it could if you follow a certain perception of ‘green’, we’re on a fairly tight budget and I consider us to be a ‘green’ family. So far we’ve actually saved money by being green, here’s a few ways how. (more…)

Reasons to go Cloth!

Helen Grounds from Petit Mom is a lover of cloth and tells you why you should consider it too!

Up to 500 Years in Landfills!
Did you know that 8 million disposable nappies in the UK go to landfills EVERY DAY? That’s a lot of nappies that can take as long as 500 years to decompose, yuck! As a cloth user I’m not putting my nappies into bins which then end up in landfills, I own them. (more…)