What are you doing to combat global warming?

[kittyfish]

Just been listening to a discussion on R4 about this. I recycle tins, bottles, plastic bottles and compost green waste. Also try to turn things off and keep thermostat at 18 degrees (not so easy). I feel I should be doing loads more and wonder what everyone else is doing?

Working in the recycling field I am impressed by what I read here. Hausfrau is right though you lot are the exception to the rule unfortunately and until we are made to pay to have our rubbish taken away by weight/volume I don't see many people changing their ways.
By the way you can put teabags in your compost and also some cardboard packaging and loo rolls will stop it going too cow pat like!
By the way household rubbish accounts for only 30% of our waste in the UK and yet commercial recycling is still in it's infancy - how much cardboard do you see around shops for instance or bottles in pubs going into a mixed bin? Rant rant!!!
Bloody hell better do some work now I'm all fired up!

I agree that most people throw away much too much - you just have to drive around on bin collecting day to see how much is piled up outside each house.

I am lucky that at work (University) we have recycling - but that is only after a lot of prompting by indivduals in the environmental science school.

We have a long way to go to get individuals and business to recycle much more, and generally reduce wasted packaging (my biggest bugbear).

Gloucestershire cc are selling subsidised compost bins - I paid £20 for a 700 litre one (which is big). I think other county councils have similar schemes but you have to find out about it.

As far as flying goes I think that all the worlds flights in one year cancels out every thing that we globally do to reduce carbon emissions. Depressingly the forecast is that this is the status quo ie we are greener in general but we also fly more year on year. Tax aviation fuel I say.

Kitty,Gwynedd county council provide them free!

I love Wales too. Is yours as big as mine though?

I was half-listening to the radio at lunchtime and the presenter asked someone what they thought of "a tax" on people who weren't 'green' enough. I heard it as "attacks" and, must admit, I thought yeah, that'd work...

"Whaddaya mean, you don't take your bottles for recycling?"

Pow! Smack! Wallop!

"You will now, won't you?"

Having only 2 children.

A smack round the chops for everyone who doesn't recycle - like it.

It's huge.
Up to past my norks.

For those who fly a lot... look at climate care .... just discovered this myself and plan to use it!

I recycle, wash on short cycles, use dishwasher every other day and use 1/2 tablet on a 30' cycle.
I shop local and since reading "Not on the label" I boycott supermarkets and other large chains
I buy only organic or bio-dynamic (easy for me as good suppliers locally and not more expensive)
Walk a lot
Compost
(Breastfed when kids were younger)