Better understand your recycling
Lots of packaging sadly isn’t actually recyclable in your council bins but it can be donated to charity (via recycling schemes), TerraCycle (who make a large % of containers for foodstuffs) for instance run a scheme, learn more here.
Amazon Customer?
Setup consolidated deliveries to help the Environment, in short, this means you pick a day each week where all your Amazon deliveries will arrive. If you ever need anything quicker you can select this at checkout.
Coffee/Tea Drinker?
Finally, buy yourself a reusable coffee cup and actually use it instead of using disposable cups (you will also save money at most coffee shops).
Move your home or business energy to a renewable energy provider
A sun, wind and wave-powered home is such a simple move to make:
- Green Energy UK
- Co-operative Energy
- Octopus Energy (free £50 with the link)
- Bulb (free £50 with the link)
- Pureplanet
- Ecotricity
- Outfox The Market
- So Energy
- Solarplicity
- Shell Energy
- Good Energy
- OVO Energy (£50 voucher with this link)
Get your street, town and city ready for EV adoption
Councils have access to £20,000,000 in funding for electric vehicle infrastructure in 2021/22 (for those without off-road parking), so if you, friends and family would fall under this criteria, make a request to your local council to request chargers. The money covers 75% of the capital costs of the install up to £13,000.
To be clear you will need to request this from your local council via their website/app etc
Reduce your junk mail and swap to paperless bills
Unsubscribe from at least 5 pieces of junk mail (postal): Think of 5 companies that continue to send you junk mail by post, login to their websites and change your preferences to email only / or none. You can also do the same for emails as well, as it’s easy to forget every email has a Carbon Footprint as well!
Similar to this you can do the same with paper bills, for instance: Council tax? Mortgage? Energy? Insurance? Phone bill? Internet? Childcare?
Swap from Google to Ecosia
Every web search goes towards planting trees, their servers run on 200% (yes 200%) renewable energy, and every search request removes 1kg of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Go meat-free for 50%+ of the week
As a family, we did this and it’s so easy to do. You can also learn about eating more seasonly with this Food Calendar and buying this great Vegan cook book for further ideas.
Watch one of these films, TV shows or videos:
- Maddie Goes Electric (YouTube, free)
- Racing Extinction (Various, Paid)
- The Game Changers (Netflix)
- An Inconvenient Truth (Various, Paid)
- The Cove (Various, Paid)
- Who Killed The Electric Car
- We drove these electric cars until they DIED! (YouTube)
- Tesla Motors – Elon Musk – Documentary