Be Eco Friendly

Gardening staff at Wimpole Hall National Trust property in Cambridgeshire are being encouraged to urinate on a straw bale in order to speed up the process of making compost.Head gardener Philip Whaites told BBC Look East reporter Mike Liggins how the process works.

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22% of all insecticides and 20% of all pesticides worldwide are used in cotton growing.

This causes problems to the local environment, harms wildlife and affects water and soil quality; thus causing an ecological imbalance.

Moreover, pesticides are dangerous to people – over 25,000 deaths a year are apparently caused by working with these chemicals. A lot of these pesticides contain ingredients that were originally developed in WW II as nerve gases!

Buy eco-friendly cotton goods now!

Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France

There are now 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre of the world’s oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year. Worse still, there seems to be nothing we can do to clean it up. So how do we turn the tide?

Richard Grant reports on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and a new expedition that aims to make us reassess our relationship with plastic. Illustrations by Brett Ryder

via Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France – Telegraph.