Recycling the Green Tips from British Newspapers The Mirror, Sunday Mirror & Daily Post

1. RECYCLE your books. Share them or give them away.

2. RECYCLE your mobile phone. There are 15 million mobiles replaced in the UK every year which equates to 1,500 tons of landfill.

3. RECYCLE your glasses - 200 million people around the world need glasses every year, but most can't afford them.

4. RECYCLE your computer.When you upgrade, contact www.computer-aid.org and www.tfs.org.uk who will find a home for your old machine in a Third World country.

5. USE both sides of every piece of paper. Over 350 million trees are cut down every year for the paper used in UK offices alone.

6. STOP WASTING WATER. Only fill the kettle with enough water for the number of cups of offee you're making.

7. HAVE A BATH WITH SOMEONE YOU LOVE. An average bath uses 65 liters of water, that's 65 liters saved.

8. BETTER YET HAVE A SHOWER WITH SOMEONE YOU LOVE. A shower uses less then half the water that baths do.A dripping tap loses hundreds of liters of water a year. And instead of hosing your garden, why not use rainwater collected in a barrel?

9. GET INTO THE HABIT OF USING THE OFF SWITCH. Leaving your TV, Stereo, Computers on standby, pump millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year. To make that change just visit www.climatechangenow.com and click on the "Switch to renewable energy now" button.

10. UNPLUG GADGETS ONCE CHARGED. Mobile phones, shavers etc. keep drawing electricity even when batteries are full. UNPLUG YOUR MOBILE CHARGER. Left plugged in and switched on, mobile phone chargers unnecessarily waste pounds 47m of electricity each year - enough to supply 66,000 homes.

11. LEAVE THE CAR AT HOME With increasing traffic congestion and rising obesity levels, walking, cycling or using public transport for short journeys makes sense.

12. WATCH LESS TV - only turn on the set when you know what it is that you want to watch.

13. USE a mug not a plastic cup. Every year more than six billion plastic, polystyrene and paper cups are used. Few of these are recycled.

14. AN energy-efficient A+ rated dishwasher uses as little as 12 liters of water a wash, compared with 40 liters if you wash dishes by hand.

15. Wash clothes in cold water to save 228 kg of CO2 a year. You don't always need hot water to wash clothes. It's only a must for greasy or extremely dirty items. Detergents such as Ariel even have their own cool clean technology which promises to get clothes hot water clean in cold water temperatures.

16. Dry clothes on a clothes line or an airer. Stop using a tumble drier for six months and you could save 318 kg of CO2 emissions and use pounds 37 less electricity.

If using a drier use Dryer Balls as below which will cut drying times by 25 per cent.

17. PUT your fridge in a cool place, clean the coils on the back every six months and defrost it regularly to save 318kg of CO2 a year - and pounds 37.

18.Only wash full loads and switch cooler temperature: using uses a third less electricity per wash.

19. BUY GLASS KITCHENWARE than plastic. Glass has an infinite shelf life. It takes less energy to recycle glass than to make it from scratch.

20. SWITCH OFF THE CAR ENGINE if idle for more than two mins., this burns more fuel than restarting the engine.

21. DRIVING a gas-guzzling 4x4 for a year uses more energy than leaving the fridge door open for seven years, the TV on for 32 years, and the bathroom light on for 34 years.

The petrol/electric hybrid Toyota Prius is capable of an economical 65 miles to the gallon.

22. KEEPING your speed down reduces emissions, keeping your tyres properly inflated is more fuel efficient, driving with the windows closed reduces drag, and sharing your car with others also helps.

23. TURNING THE THERMOSTAT DOWN by just one degree can make a real dent in your household emissions and save on your heating bill.

24. Fit reflective panels behind radiators. They are cheap to buy, easy to install and reflect back heat that would otherwise drift through the wall. You can make your own by wrapping tinfoil around cardboard.

25. When cooking saucepans with lids on heat much quicker, using less energy in the process.

26.THINK BEFORE YOU BUY. Demand local and seasonal products because jetting food in by air from the other side of the world damages the planet.

27. Avoiding processed and packaged foods reduces the emissions generated by transporting multiple ingredients and products around the country or even the world, as well as in the production of packaging.

28. Each minute a fridge door is open it can take three minutes to cool down again or half an hour for a freezer.

29. Full freezers take less energy to keep cool. If not food, use plastic bottles filled with water or even scrunched-up newspaper.

30. Read more, learn more about ecological awareness & practices and make it a bigger part of your life and your children's life.