We seem to have chaos in the house today, My husband is painting the kitchen and has moved everything out all over the place I have been weeding yet again mainly in order to keep out of the way. I have been trying out a carpet freshner today it's from a tip I saw for giving your dog a dry shampoo! Shula is never dry enough! Anyway I mixed a quantity of bicarbonate of soda with some lavender essential oil in a jar left it to percolate for a while and then sprinkled it on I am going back to vacuum later but it is giving off a lovely smell. I suppose you could any oil but it would probably need to be quite a strong one.
I was looking at a blog about aluminium and the fact that it recycleable over and over again - Aluminum is one of the few recyclable products that doesn’t degrade during the recycle process. It can be recycled over and over again and still maintain it’s integrity
- It takes 20 times the amount of energy and resources to mine aluminum as it does to recycle it
Sadly we do don’t do a very good job of reusing or recycling our aluminum. Each
year tons of aluminum ends up in land fills. We throw away huge amounts Here are simple things you can do to help alleviate the problem.
- Reduce: Store left over’s in glass containers or recyclable plastic containers.
- Reuse: Reuse your aluminum foil. It’s as simple as that.
- Recycle: MAKE SURE to recycle all your cans and foil. You
may have to rinse off your foil to comply with local requirements for
recycling but it only takes a few seconds and you can send it back to
be reused again.
- Buy recycled foil.
I looked up recycling foil in the UK because I had not actually thought of doing it prior to reading about it. You have to make sure it is aluminium and not metalized plastic for example crisp packets. Generally if it is squashed and scrunches up and doesn't regain it's shape it's aluminium. You can scrunch it up to recycle.
We are using a lot more aluminium products that are easy to use
once and then throw away: in the kitchen, as foil, and as milk bottle
tops, for instance. As the UK is becoming takeaway food
addicts, notice that most of the containers for takeaways are aluminium
too. Perhaps because it is such a light metal, easily crushed, that we
take it so much for granted. But it is a metal, and one of the most
useful because of its manipulativeness. So get recycling I am going too! One small thing to note wash the foil prior to recycling.
Linda