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The Book of Rubbish Ideas: An interactive, room-by-room, guide to reducing household waste. [Paperback]

Tracey Smith
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)

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Book Description

10 Sep 2008

Slow down and Green Up

Every householder should have a copy of this easy reference guide to reducing household waste and stopping wasteful behaviour. The book is a top down guided tour through the average family home, from bedroom and bathroom through to the kitchen and out into the garden.

Although the percentage we recycle is increasing we still need to dramatically reduce the amount of waste we produce whether that be waste from the kitchen or bathroom or garden shed.

Full of practical tips and quirky ideas – from insulating your loft to jazzing up your old clothes; growing your own food to keeping chickens.



Product details

  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Alastair Sawday's (10 Sep 2008)
  • Language: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 1906136130
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906136130
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.2 x 20.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 80,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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On her debut title, 'The Book of Rubbish Ideas', Tracey says, "I've combined the sobering reality of the issues we face regarding our rubbish and waste, with a good handful of easily achievable solutions on ways to eliminate it.

It's an encouraging and upbeat read that will enable you to make simpler, happier living with dramatically reduced levels of rubbish, a reality!

It also issues you with tools that fire up your imagination for a little armchair activism that could significantly minimise waste in your local communities too.

There's a website coming soon with further reading, more great tips and a few short films showing how easy it is to turn rubbish reduction notions, into positive actions.

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tracey Smith is the founder of National Downshifting week. She has been shortlisted for the ITV Eco Hero Award and writes for Good Energy and the Environment Agency. She also presents the radio show Slow Down and Green Up.


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4.9 out of 5 stars
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a lasting inspiration!

Having lived a life of composting, cooking with leftovers, and avoiding packaged food for years, I didn't think I could learn that much on the subject of re-cycling and reducing waste, and was sceptical about the difference an already eco-concious individual can make to all those depressing stats about humans destroying the planet. But Tracey Smith's Book of Rubbish Ideas was full of facts and snippets I was totally ignorant of, as well as literally hundreds of ideas on how to make easy changes, and alter the way we have become used to living.

I used to feel a bit helpless about the plastic bag issue, so just ignored it and increasingly ended up chucking them in the bin. Now I know that each bag will hang around for up to 1000 (!!!!) years, I feel that each one does make a difference and have stopped being lazy about it.

Consumerism and the resulting waste have already been proven not to make us happy, but in this book, Smith shows how reducing waste and recycling can actually enhance your life and save you huge amounts of money. This is why it is so inspiring. Surely it just makes sense to use a Mooncup, which lasts for 10 years and costs £20, rather than spend a fortune on tampons, which leech chemicals and fibres into our bodies? And as for the countless chemicals we slather on ourselves and our homes, well, they can be replaced with safer, more natural, less expensive, multi-purpose products, which will mean less clutter, and of course less waste.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Waste not, want not. 29 Sep 2008
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A very apt, timely piece of a well researched book, big on ideas to save our money and time. It also gives us a feelgood factor in recycling more of our unwanted possessions.

Some of Tracey's proposals could also make us new friends when we meet the people we are donating our goods to.

This book is affordable, handbag sized to show our friends and suits my pressing requirements.

If you want to make a difference in saving the planet, this is the book for you.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Everbody should own this book! 30 Sep 2008
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A book that is a must for every household. Clearly and simply explained, lots of recycling ideas that can easily be put into practise, surprising percentages and statistics, I learned a lot and have started emptying my cold hot water bottle contents over the pot plants! This book could just be the thing that will kick-start whole families into being more eco-friendly. So if anyone is stuck for a present to fill that Christmas stocking, this book could be the answer!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is anything but rubbish! 16 Dec 2008
Format:Paperback
I bought this book as it was recommended by a friend who thought I would be interested and how right she was and I now notice that quite a few of my friends are reading it. The first section is on the 'Vital Stats' of our rubbish and it is a real eye-opener, even for someone who thinks she knows a little about the problem of where are rubbish goes. However, unlike some books on the subject, it isn't all doom and gloom as the author goes to show in the next section where you take a walk through the home to see what can be done to reduce rubbish in each area. I like to think I know a thing or two about recycling and not using a cocktail of chemicals for cleaning, but even I have come away with new ideas, such as realising that their is a way to stop you getting all that 'junk mail' that the postman now kindly delivers through your front door. I thought there was nothing you could do about that. The book also has handy email templates for you to copy, such as one to send to your local school to see what their recycling policies are. Now it is a small thing, but can you imagine if every household in the country sent something like this to the local school? It would show our interest and hopefully spur schools into showing the 'future' to all our kids. It is very small, it is very achievable, even for busy people. It could actually be done! That is the real sense that you get from this book. It is a series of little things that are going to change our attitude to our rubbish and our throwaway lifestyle. No one is perfect, but if we all make one small change, that translates into a big change for the whole of the planet.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific practical guide to greening-up 19 Sep 2008
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This is a fabulous little book. Whilst most sane people (so perhaps not the Sarah Palin's of this world) buy into the new green reality - that the oil guzzling, linear growth modelling, spend your way out of trouble days of yore are coming to an end - its still the case that few people seem to get beyond contenting themselves with their green box collection on a Thursday and having warm feelings about Hugh Fearnley. 'We do our bit for the environment' they can be heard saying. And maybe they do. They know they should do more, but seem paralysed by the ghastly size of the collective challenge.

This book is heaven sent for those suffering the attendant weakness of will. Tracey Smith is exactly the kind of sane, humourous, non-shrill, practically-oriented voice that is needed to literally domesticate the philosophical triumph of the green movement. Its unfeasibly packed with practical advice on how to effect small, but significant, change in your daily life. Just as importantly it incentivises this change not just with the bare and gloomy facts of environmental and economic meltdown, but with evidence of the small, practical benefits that accrue to a life lived a little more sanely, relfectively and, of course, greenly.

Buy it or burn!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant title; brilliant book
Lots of ideas and lots of practical ways to reduce waste and save money, all served up in an amusing and easy to read style. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Reverend Peter Doodes
4.0 out of 5 stars Rubbish? Anything but!
The Book of Rubbish Ideas is anything but rubbish. It is FULL of excellent tips to help eco-newbies and hard-core Greens see rubbish as a resource, cut down on waste, and save... Read more
Published on 1 April 2011 by Alison Bayne
4.0 out of 5 stars The Book of Rubbish Ideas
`The Book of Rubbish Ideas' is a book written to provide you with information and ideas to reduce clutter in your home, as well as to live more sustainably and with minimal impact... Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2010 by Spider Monkey
5.0 out of 5 stars Digestable, interestering, inspiring without worthy, actionable- read...
This is a good read, funny, informative, manageable and I learnt a few new things (not totally new to the trying to live better thing)and got a bit inspired! Read more
Published on 6 Jan 2010 by Azl Hartley
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, easy to read, fun, no greenwash or hand wringing-perfect
Brilliant.

Beg, borrow or steal, then buy if you cannot get any other way, as this book is fab. Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2009 by Zoe H
5.0 out of 5 stars A great help to anyone who wants to lead a greener life!
I pride myself on being quite a "green" person, we compost, actively recycle, minimise car journeys, turn off lights, used washable nappies, use reusable sanitary protection and... Read more
Published on 17 July 2009 by Mrs. Christine Mcritchie
5.0 out of 5 stars Not a load of rubbish!
If you've ever heaved the bin bags out to the kerb and wondered where all your rubbish comes from, or whether it's possible to thin the bin, then Tracey Smith has the answer for... Read more
Published on 18 May 2009 by E. Cooper
5.0 out of 5 stars A little eco-gem
Disposable is not disposable and Tracey Smith makes that very clear - all of our rubbish ends up somewhere, and it's our job to stop it at source. Read more
Published on 9 April 2009 by SecondCherry
5.0 out of 5 stars The Book of rubbish Ideas
Excellent book. Wish that the majority of the western industrialised population would follow the ideas for reducing household waste. Read more
Published on 1 April 2009 by Ms. Tina Waghorn
5.0 out of 5 stars A real must-have for anyone with too much rubbish on their hands
Other books might address the idea of reducing, reusing and recycling, but what's different about The Book of Rubbish Ideas is that it provides a proper framework within which to... Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2009 by K Cannard
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