Plastic is an amazingly versatile material and it is no wonder it is used to make items and as a packaging material for our food, beverages, cleaning products, equipment etc etc. However, consumers and manufacturers …
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Hard Plastic Recycling: Reuse Recover Rethink
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My Favourite Photos 09 Jan 2018
Here are my favourite photos from the week gone. 🙂 In the kitchen: In the garden: Out and about: See you next week, PK Related Links: see more of my favourite photos here Please consider …
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My Favourite Photos 02 Jan 2018
Lots of meat this week 🙂 This is a leg of venison a good friend gave me. In the garden. In the kitchen. See you next week 🙂 PK Related Links: see more of my …
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Soft Plastic Recycling Australia: Reuse Recover Rethink
The best way of recycling plastic is to have not used it in the first place. 🙂 However while it remains part of everyday life we should try to recycle as much of it as …
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MeatMatters: Australian Chicken
In Australia we are relatively lucky when it comes to the standard and practices of our domestic chicken meat industry. I am not saying that all industry operators are equal/perfect nor that greedy maximum-profit driven …
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ReuseRecover: Jam Jar Screw Containers
My father in law put me onto this great tip. Using jam jars and the like to store nuts, bolts etc etc in your shed this way has so many benefits. Not only do you …
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GoodCritters: Daddy Long Legs Spider
These delicate spiders get an automatic entry into the GoodCritters club :). They munch on the munchers (BadCritters) and keep to themselves otherwise. Legend has it they can’t bite humans. Species: Pholcus phalangioides Identification: Benefits: …
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BadCritters: Small Pointed Snail
I don’t see many examples of this very shy BadCritter in my garden but I suspect there are lots of them hidden in the leaf litter. This one was munching on some radish leaves and …
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BadCritters: Tiger Moth Caterpillar
The caterpillar of this BadCritter will munch your salad greens just as happily as your non-edibles. Their hairy bodies have given them the nickname ‘woolly bears’. I picked the caterpillar below of my snow pea …