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recycled polyester garden blanket from bluebellgray

Glasgow-based bluebellgray has a produced a gorgeous padded blanket for outdoor use made entirely from post-consumer recycled polyester

Mend it ... the Finns do

A new exhibition at the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Design Museum in Helsinki aims to get us all repairing things rather than buying new 

Emma Jeffryes exhibition of paintings in St Ives

Cornish artist Emma Jeffryes has an exhibition of recent paintings coming up at the New Craftsman Gallery in St Ives

Your main bin can now be lined with a compostable bag thanks to EKO

UK-based homewares company EKO has developed compostable liners for large household bins

Lidl's Botticelli inspired Venus made from recycled bottle tops

To celebrate its recycling scheme, the supermarket chain has unveiled in Glasgow a 25 ft high mural of Venus made from over 30,000 plastic bottle tops 

The Oil Machine is a new film that aims to show us how oil is destroying the planet

The Oil Machine is a new documentary from director Emma Davie that shows us the true price of our dependence on oil and asks if activists and investors can bring about a global shift to non fossil fuel energy

birds benefit from food from us in winter

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is urging us to keep an eye out for our fine friends with feathers as the weather turns colder 

annie sloan paint for furniture upcycling

Make 2024 the year you get into furniture painting! Annie Sloan's enduringly useful and popular book Colour Recipes for Painted Furniture shows you how to upcycle old furniture and tired walls and floors using eco-friendly chalk paint 

dotcomblinds for bifold doors

Blinds offer the best solution for window treatments. They can be eminently affordable, easy to install and they give a smart finished look to all rooms

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