Guardian
So pleased that Plastic is Rubbish got featured as the Guardians sustainable blog of the week last week.
You can read the interview her
Guardian green blogs have put together an interactive map to profile all of the sustainable blogs of the week that they featured on Live Better for the past six months.
The Guardian picks up a collection of articles on plastic free living I wrote for the Huddersfield Examiner….
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Now this may sound daffy, but actually the Huddersfield Examiner’s interest in Worm Tea is part of the thriving new North. The paper’s green columnist Kate Armstrong, who lives appropriately in the Huddersfield suburb of Marsh, is delighted with the success of her worm composting bin.
“Those of you kind enough to read these words will know that I bought it four months ago,” she says in that delightfully modest way that you regularly discover in local newspapers. It has been a dramatic period. The bin was theoretically escape proof, but Ms Armstrong’s worms got out and infested her garage. “When my husband discovered them in his drill bits he threatened to sacrifice them on the bird table if a solution wasn’t found.”
She promptly constructed her own worm Colditz and fed its contents on a super-rich diet of festering food scraps. This resulted in a plague of fruit flies and more potential wrath from Mr Armstrong. Kate gave up, capped the mess with some spadefuls of soil and forgot about it until this week. Bingo! When she went for a desultory check, she found the bin standing in a lake of Worm Tea, a digestive juice which is sold at handsome prices on the internet as a superior plant feed and to cure black spot on roses. The worms themselves are now apparently the size of anacondas, and even Mr Armstrong is impressed.
Bit excited today as the blog is featured over in Gadling Travel Blog, a worthy publication with obviously good taste. You can read the full article here Best of all I am so pleased that plastic free travel is of interest to a wider audience. Is the tide turning? I truly hope so.
You can find all our travel-related, plastic-free tips here….
My article about the dangers and delights of traveling plastic free appears in this months edition of Backpacker South East Asia