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Many of the things we use in our everyday lives contain batteries. From your car to your smartphone, laptop, kids’ toys, and more, they all have them. So what happens when these batteries die? Hands up if you put them in a random drawer because you have no idea what to do with them. Our guide to battery recycling might just help you figure it out.

When it comes to recycling, light bulbs are often high up on the ‘how on earth do I recycle this?’ list. Disposing of light bulbs properly is all in the type of light bulb. Some you can recycle and some you can not. Here’s our ultimate guide on how to recycle light bulbs.

Own up, have you got an old laptop gathering dust in the loft or the garage? Technology moves fast so most of us have a fair bit of e-waste cluttering up our homes. Ever wondered how you can recycle it and why you definitely should? Here’s our guide to laptop recycling.

We all know that it is important to recycle for the well-being of our planet. But did you know that you could make money out of it? Your empty cosmetics bottles, designer shoe boxes, and old mobile phones could be worth a fortune, and you could even cash in on empty cans and toilet roll tubes.

When it comes to recycling, one man’s trash really is another man’s treasure, so before you fill up your recycling bins this weekend, check out our guide below.

Discarded laughing gas canisters are becoming an increasingly familiar sight on our pavements and in our parks. These small steel bottles contain nitrous oxide or ‘laughing gas’ which has become a recreational drug of choice for party and festival-goers.

Nitrous oxide is a light anaesthetic in dentistry or to charge whipped cream aerosols. As a drug, the gas it provides is transferred from the canister into a balloon and inhaled. The high that users get is brief, so you’ll often find a large number of discarded canisters in the same place.

If you don’t have the space for recycling, it can be tempting to just put everything in your household waste bin where it will end up in the landfill. But don’t get disheartened, there are ways that you can recycle more, even when you don’t have a lot of space...

Have you ever been somewhere that was covered with litter? How did the place look? Did you want to spend a lot of time there? And how much of the litter do you think would actually have been recyclable?

In this series, we’ll be giving you inspiration on how you can challenge yourself to recycle more and generally live a greener life.