the word must be green...
Despite all the media hype, the state of the environment is a genuine worry for us all – or should be. Did you know that it is estimated within the next two years almost every landfill in the UK will be full? Perhaps this isn't a surprise to those of us who are aware that the average family produces around twenty-five kilograms of waste every single week! Combined, that mass of waste includes a million loaves of bread, four and a half million apples and five million potatoes every single day!
Yet despite the huge amount of rubbish being buried in the ground, half the contents of most waste bins can be recycled, which could also save huge amounts of energy! It's fashionable for people to go about houses turning plugs off to save small amounts of energy, but recycling just one tin can could save enough energy to power the average TV for three hours! Recycled paper takes seventy percent less energy to create than conventional paper, yet bags made from recycled paper have a forty percent high volume than plastic bags, which take thousands of years to degrade! The statistics in favour of recycling are simply staggering! So why don't more of us do it?
Surveys indicate that ninety percent of people who don't recycle said they would if it was made easier. In my opinion, this is the most disgusting statistic of all! As if a short drive (or even a long drive!) is too much to ask for the massive impact that each family can have by recycling!
Essentially all we each have to do is dedicate an hour per week to sensible waste disposal and we can change the way the world is heading – how is that possibly too much to ask?! Given the amount of hours we spend watching TV, can't we afford to sacrifice just one per week in order to save enough energy to power our TVs for a month?! Or, more importantly, to help save the entire planet?!
The ugly truth is that the world isn't going to get any better on its own. In fact, it's getting worse and worse at an ever-increasing rate. The rapidly growing population and prevalence of non-biodegradable packaging in fast foods means there will be even more waste in a few years than there is now, yet there will be nowhere for it to go! I'm not sure if people quite understand the implications of that statement, so I'll say it again; there will be NOWHERE for the waste to go! Even if there were more landfills (which there aren't), the negative impact of filling huge parts of the land with waste is almost unimaginable! Everybody correlates greenhouses gasses of fossil fuels, but they forget that gargantuan piles of rubbish also give off greenhouse gases, as well as poisoning the ground and surrounding wildlife!
The only solution is recycling – it makes a massive difference and is so easy to do! Around eighty percent of the population have plastic bins outside of their house; the green one is for recycling. If you just keep your materials separate and put them in the green bin, they will be recycled for you - how much easier can it possible be?! If you don't have a recycling bin, you'll have a recycling centre within a few miles so just make some effort! There really is no excuse for not doing your part to help rescue the environment from the problems that we have caused.
Tim Price is an eco-warrior affiliated with Mean but Green. He highly recommends visiting http://www.imrubbish.co.uk/ for more information about different kinds of litter bins.
Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/gardening-articles/use-recycling-waste-bins-1113896.htmlCool weather gardening is a great way to start the spring gardening push. For the earliest garden, or in extremely cold climates, cold weather crops give us a great way to get started in the garden even before the last chance of frost has faded away. And most of these favorites will thrive in containers, so you can start them inside if you like.
One of the easiest and earliest to produce are radishes. Simple to sow and grow, they can often be harvested in only about 30 days, so these are a must for anyone trying to start an early garden. And they are great for a salad.
Speaking of salads, no salad is complete without lettuce or spinach. Leave lettuce is easy to grow almost anywhere. It germinates well, will tolerate some light frost, and is quick to mature. It can be planted from seed, or transplants. Start with the leaf or buttercrunch lettuce, they're easier to grow than head lettuce, mature more quickly, and the harvest time is longer as well. Spinach has a growth pattern much like leaf lettuce. However, it's a little hard to germinate, so you may want to start it in a peat pot before setting it out in the garden.
Another cold weather garden standby is peas. In some parts of the country you can plant peas in the ground as soon as the ground thaws enough to stick your finger in to push the seed down. A light feeder, this one actually improves the soil as it grows by fixing nitrogen. And for a variation on the pea theme, there are few crops that are as mouthwatering straight out of the garden as sugar snap peas, which can also make a great addition to that salad.
One other crop that is not normally thought of as cold weather crop are tomatoes. These favorites are not frost hardy, and prefer warmer temperatures to thrive. But that's not to say that with a little help we can push mother nature to let us gain a few weeks on starting those tomatoes. By using container or hanging planters, or water teepees in the garden, you can get the jump on your neighbors on getting those tomatoes going in your garden.
If you want to learn more about cold weather favorites like growing sugar snap peas, growing lettuce, or getting the jump on growing growing early spring tomatoes then head on over to howtogardenguide.com
Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/gardening-articles/cool-weather-gardens-start-your-peas-lettuce-and-tomatoes-843328.htmlA proper blood pressure holds key to your survival and good health. A plenty of drugs and equally surpassing therapies are available in the market to regulate and control your blood pressure. One such therapy that requires just a hot tub with a customized and regulated flow of water is known as Hydrotherapy. Essentially, before dwelling more in to hydrotherapy we are required to know more about a hot tub and the reasons behind of installing one for you.
Hot tubs provide you instant relief from high blood pressure. Regularized flow of hot water helps in dilation of your blood vessels. With external dilation, even your heart remains from the requirement of pumping as stressfully and hard as it requires regularize blood in to the vessel. The hot tub treatment results in considerably lowering your blood pressure.
After a busy day at office, your muscle might feel a little sour due to the accumulation of lactic acid. You will feel better and get relaxed once the blood gets into your muscles and the lactic acid is regularized. All it requires a little session inside a hot tub.
Add to it the benefits of faster vasodilatation. Now due to the regularized external water jets, more oxygen is ready to be transported to places where there is insufficient supply of oxygen. With better supply of oxygen a hot tub also adds to the healing process and brings back your blood pressure back to normalcy. The process of vasodilatation, thanks to the hot tub again, also helps in the circulation of nutrients.
A hot tub is a worthy investment as it certainly pays you dividends in many ways.
It is advisable to consult a doctor, before using the hot tubs. If you are a high blood pressure patient, using a hot tub would not only lower your blood pressure but also improve the overall quality of life.
Myself author of Spasearch magazine http://www.spasearch.org - a hot tub planning guide for hot tubs, portable hot tub, hot tub spa, exercise pool, small hot tub, indoor hot tub & outdoor hot tub.
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