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I find myself switching off lights all over the place as Mrs tag appears to put them on unnecessarily ( in my humble opinion ) and then never ever realises she has left them on 😡
 
I find myself switching off lights all over the place as Mrs tag appears to put them on unnecessarily ( in my humble opinion ) and then never ever realises she has left them on 😡
Same here, despite being almost all LEDs, I still switch 'em off.
Several bits of electronics that were usually left on standby have also been disconnected ...

Now to try and teach housemates to turn the laptop / radio / TV off when they are not actively using the output from said devices, especially the TV.

I've almost given up on trying to get them to recycle ... they just "bin" everything, without much attempt at separation. Can't even but the banana peel in the composting bin, never mind wash out pop bottles, which is very frustrating.
 
Same here, despite being almost all LEDs, I still switch 'em off.
Several bits of electronics that were usually left on standby have also been disconnected ...

Now to try and teach housemates to turn the laptop / radio / TV off when they are not actively using the output from said devices, especially the TV.

I've almost given up on trying to get them to recycle ... they just "bin" everything, without much attempt at separation. Can't even but the banana peel in the composting bin, never mind wash out pop bottles, which is very frustrating.
Switching off standby stuff as been the big thing for me, the TV, the DVR, the Blu-Ray and the Sky box are now all on a single strip plugged into a smart switch that turns them all off at midnight and back on again in the middle of the afternoon (mornings at weekends)
 
Came back from Brighton on the train , and someone had left a half full bottle of still water on one of the tables.

So I watered some of the rather dry station planters and put the plastic bottle in the station mixed recycling bag. Feeling virtuous.
Coincidentally I did similar one my walk to the shops at lunchtime, although I used the contents of the discarded receptacle to water a patch of grass.

The bottle itself was put in my recycling once I got home.
 
Turning lights off when leaving a room is something I've done since I was a kid, weird how some people don't do it.

It might be less weird if you think about the different lighting that people have. I reflexively switch off overhead lighting when leaving the room but then I very rarely use it in the first place. When the room has ambient lighting from multiple small lights positioned in various parts of the room, switching on/off each time you enter/exit becomes finicky and time consuming.
 
I do have quite a few things that are on 24/7. Fridge, table top freezer, server, modem, 2 alexa thingies, bathroom fan (there's no window in there, speeds up when detecting steam,) and my desktop PC is left on a few days a week.

Was on the green tariff until that supplier went bust though.
 
Not so much things I've done (although this was a card I bought), but small environmental efforts I've come across recently. A card without cellophane wrapping, but just a paper closure instead, and free coffee grounds for the garden offered by a cafe (my garden is paved & only pots, so I didn't take any).

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Not so much things I've done (although this was a card I bought), but small environmental efforts I've come across recently. A card without cellophane wrapping, but just a paper closure instead, and free coffee grounds for the garden offered by a cafe (my garden is paved & only pots, so I didn't take any).

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I draw my own cards, have done for years. I use old whatever cardboard that'd otherwise get put in the recycling bin.
 
I draw my own cards, have done for years. I use old whatever cardboard that'd otherwise get put in the recycling bin.
Love a handmade card.

I've kept a stack of birthday and Christmas cards with the intention of cutting the fronts off and making new cards out of them. It's on the 'projects that may happen somewhen' pile!
 
Ive been vegetarian for 38 years, unfortunately it has not stopped the world from being terminally fucked.
There is only one way to avoid destruction of the eco system and that is population control.
 
Ive been vegetarian for 38 years, unfortunately it has not stopped the world from being terminally fucked.
There is only one way to avoid destruction of the eco system and that is population control.
That didn't work very well in China.
 
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