Recycled Beer Bottle Glasses - Grolsch Goblet

I have not started Christmas shopping yet - but have been looking for great eco-friendly gifts to buy for people over the last few days.

Found this Xmas site, which throws up some amusing suggestions.

Not all eco friendly but I did find these Grolsch glass goblets, made from recycled beer bottles.



I am sure you could fashion one yourself if you hang around in a highstreet after most Friday nights in the UK. Probably a bit too dangerous to do that, so these glasses make an unusual gift for the beer lover, as well as giving a good recycling message.

My personal favourite is the Grolsch tumblers, priced at £9.95 for 2.

Free Showersave with Savewatersavemoney

www.savewatersavemoney.co.uk are giving away free showersave attachments for your shower so you can start saving money by reducing your water usage.

Competition: Win a Wattson Energy Meter

Would you like to track how much energy you are using in your home? Well the Watson Eenrgy Meter can provide this service!

The Watson provides is a great gadget that gives a useful useful indication of your current energy consumption levels with different coloured lights. Blue indicates low energy use, whilst red indicates extreme power sapping appliances are in use!

Watson Energy Meter Competition
Win a Watson with Uswich Energy

Available to buy at the following gadget retailers:
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Sony Ericsson Elm has Green Credentials

Sony Ericsson have expanded it's GreenHeart portfolio with the Sony Erisscon Elm, which is due for relase shortly.

The Sony Ericsson Elm phone will benefit the environment and help reduce CO2 emissions through:
• Recycled plastics
• E-manual in phone
• Free from hazardous chemicals
• Low power consumption charger (EP300 GreenHeart™)
• Walk Mate eco application
• Green calculator
• Minimized packaging

The Elm will be shipped with a GreenHeart™ personal handsfree; the Stereo Portable Handsfree HPM-60J, which is a step towards reaching the 100 per cent GreenHeart™ accessories goal of Sony Ericsson.

"The Sony Ericsson Elm and the Sony Ericsson Hazel phones offer consumers a green choice without compromising on features or fun. These mobile phones also give consumers a better voice quality experience, with Noise Shield, Clear Voice and Intelligent Volume Adaptation. Both phones offer an easy-to-use social networking experience featuring the Widget Manager application, which allows users access to their social networking page via the stand-by screen and quickly switch between different social networks." said Fortuné Alexander, Global Marketing Director at Sony Ericsson.

Sony Ericsson announced its ambition to making all of its accessories 100 per cent GreenHeart™ compliant by 2011.

“Building on the established heritage of our parent companies we have worked continuously to maintain our leadership position by committing to reduce our own CO2 emissions by 20 per cent and product life cycle CO2 emissions by 15 per cent by 2015.” said Mats Pellbäck Scharp, Environmental Director at Sony Ericsson.

“The Sony Ericsson Elm phone, Sony Ericsson Hazel phone and the VH700 are a testament of our continued commitment to the environment and are part of the ongoing roll-out of our GreenHeart™ strategy announced in June 2009.” continues Mats Pellbäck Scharp.

Steve Alder, General Manager Group and UK Devices for O2, said: “Offering Sony Ericsson GreenHeart™ phones to our customers has been a part of our strategy to integrate sustainability across all our products and services thereby helping our customers reduce their environmental footprint. As an industry it is essential we embrace innovation in this area and incorporating greener credentials across our product portfolio is certainly a focus for us moving forwards.”

UPDATE: View Sony Ericsson Elm Greenheart now on Vodafone!

Good to see some movement on this, hopefully other manufacturers will follow. Remember to recycle your old mobile phones!

John Lewis Supports Eco Home Exhibition

John Lewis are supporting the Eco Home Exhibition at the Geffrye Museum, over the next few weeks.

"The mantra ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’
is prompting us to rethink our habits and behaviour. This exhibition will offer visitors food for
thought on what they can do to make small but important eco changes in their homes."

The Exhibition runs until Sunday 7 February 2010 in East London.

John Lewis now stock a great range of energy efficent appliances and recycling bins for the home.

Recycled Lego Cufflinks

Check out these recycled lego cufflinks below. They are wicked! Would also make a great stocking filler this year.



Just £5 :)

Sources:
Eco Wedding Shop
Christmas Gift Guide

Organic Cotton Shopper Bags

Check out the great rwange of eco-friendly shopper bag selection on lovingthatbag.com. Here is a Twiggy looking like a top model on an M&S shopper bag:



They seem pretty cool to me, they are great for going to the supermarket in style or for general use. Lets hope they can find more suppliers for environmentally friendly handbags to sell. I would really like to see a lot more online merchants selling some recycled fashion products over the next year, not just the tiny independent bag makers who are doing a fine job.

Mobile Phone Recycling Trebles in the UK

Good to see that cash-strapped britons are selling their old mobile phones instead of keeping them in a drawer at home!

Source: Hitwise - Mobile Phone Recycling Trebles


Jolly Green Blogger recommends Mobile Phone Xchange - they pay out the best money over the searches we have tried.

Time to sell my E71 as I have just upgraded to a HTC magic Google Phone...

Recycling Phones & The Environment

It is a great time to recycle your mobile phone, you can earn money for those all important pounds which you need at christmas! You can earn up to £200 from online companies such as mobile phonee xchange, where you just simply post your phone to them. They even take damaged phones.

With all the hi-tech waste that’s generated these days, it’s good to know that there are easy ways to dispose of your old mobile phones, which are harmful to the environment if you just chuck them in the garbage. With today’s increasingly green-conscious world, more people are looking for ways to help out and make it a cleaner, safer place for the next generation. Like all electronic devices, mobile phones contain heavy metals that, if allowed to leech into the soil, will pollute the environment with potentially disastrous results down the road.

Recycling also means that materials that have already been taken from the environment via mining and so forth are reused, thereby cutting down on the drain on the earth’s resources, which are not, contrary to what some people seem to think judging by their throw-away attitude, infinite. Recycling hi-tech waste like old mobile phones also saves energy since raw materials don’t have to be refined, and refining is extremely energy intensive. It also means that the cost of electronics will decrease without the use of raw materials and their expensive extraction methods, plus recycling creates jobs.

If you’re not sure how to have your old mobile phone recycled, Apple has a free programme that makes it really easy to do. All you have to do is visit their website and fill in a form, and they’ll send you a prepaid address label, which you just print and stick to your package, then simply chuck it in the mail and they take care of the rest. It’s good to know that some manufacturers are prepared to offer free disposal of mobile phones and the like to help preserve our environment. Now it’s up to us to make use of this and help keep our environment safe for our kids.

We recommend using an online service such as mobilephoneexchange, to earn back money as you recycle!

It Makes Sense to Recycle!

Here is a bit of research
and further insight into the
current financial crisis:

If you had purchased £1000 of Northern
Rock stock one year ago, it would be
worth £4.95 today. With HBOS, you
would have £16.50 left of the original
£1000. With XL Leisure, you would have
less than a fiver. And if you had
purchased £1000 of Seguro Air Lines
stock, you would have a measly 49p.

However, if you had purchased £1000
worth of Tennent's Lager one year ago,
drank the lot of it, then re-cycled
the cans at an aluminium plant for a
cash refund, you would have £214. And
so, based on the above information,
the best current investment advice is
to drink heavily and recycle.