The 50+ Blog

A recent news item on BBC Breakfast revealed that there is a higher recycling cost for Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) due to the mercury content. But you knew that as we revealed it in March 2007! Energy efficient lamps get better all the time but you do need to choose carefully so, if in doubt, [...]

Tags: cfl, energy efficient, no too bright

According to yesterday’s Daily Mail (Saturday, October 6th) we’ll soon be charged £40 if we put out more than one bag of rubbish! The powers that be still have not the wit to realise that the problem needs to be tackled at source. It’s time for people to take matters into their own hands. I [...]

As usual, people are making this issue unnecessarily complicated. A lot of what we do is wasteful, if we eliminated this by simple change of habit we could do wonders for the environment. We know there is far too much packaging on many products we purchase so reduce it and we won’t need to throw [...]

So, I’ll be charged £400 per year for road tax on my aging Discovery now. Wonder what that will achieve bearing in mind I can’t justify changing vehicle every time the Government comes up with a new hare-brained scheme for saving the World. I don’t use it for the school run and never did, it [...]

Whilst we are very keen to do our bit for the environment the current furore over energy efficient light bulbs is enough to put anyone off especially as there are some major myths around these devices. Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFL) are available in a number of forms and some are more efficient than others. [...]