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@dallas10086, they go in a sealed bucket, like a nappy bucket (diaper pail to you Americans) and as you (1) only use them for pee (2) wash first (with a spray bottle of water) and the...

FoodieGreenie, I was about to say exactly the same thing - if you're using shower gel, it's using a lot of oil to transport all that water, even if you re-fill your plastic bottles.

It strikes me you could possibly use these as soap molds...

"I drink bottled because I like the idea that it comes from a spring or a glacier somewhere" It comes from an oil well. By drinking bottled water, you are wasting 2000 times more energ...

"packed full of people taking away cheap crap that will be in a land fill in 2 years" Funny, there's an ikea desk in my study/second bedroom that's been around since the 1980s. I'm sit...

"tampons and pads have been linked to HPV, or at least thats what i recall reading. non-organic tampons and pads, that is." That makes no sense - HPV is a virus. You can't possibly cat...

"our only options are recycled versus the fluffy white" You're kidding, right? You do know, surely, seeing as you're a "green" blog and all, that people use cloth wipes?

If I had any highschool sports trophies, I'd totally display them!

"anyone who believes the government should be mandating what sort of LIGHT BULBS we buy should be rounded up and shot" Anyone who thinks their own selfish desires are more important th...

"The dog lives here. Would you tell a roommate that he wasn't allowed to sit on the couch?" Newsflash, roommates are human (mostly), dogs are not. Therein lies the differe...

abc123, I don't know about you, but I have a heap of CDs that aren't music, they're crappy free software, or old versions of programs I now have newer versions of, or data backups I don't need, etc...

I am a woman, and I totally dig the red bed with the champagne holder and the tv. Gimme gimme!

"try training a pug to stay off the sofa....impossible!" No it's not. Our pug has been trained to stay on the floor - the ground floor at that, he doesn't even come upstairs. He has hi...

really cute, but cot bumpers are a SIDS risk, I do hope they're being taken out when the baby is actually in there...

Pencils, sounds like you're being a little judgmental yourself, with calling things other parents do "stupid stuff".

" And now that most of our CDs are digital, " er, most of your CDs were digital to start with...

"relatively futile gender dispute" - there speaks male privilege.

I voted other too - I mostly buy second-hand, which is even more environmentally friendly! I have bought organic cotton undies, though.

Australia's ban on incandescents isn't actually in force yet.

I can just imagine banging my ankles on the corners of this in the middle of the night when I get up to go to the bathroom...