The Commuter Scooter - Practical or not

Getting around can be a bind. If you work in London, you may have noticed how many stations have put up pricing of parking alone to around £5/day. On top of the train journey thats a lot of money, excluding running costs of the car, used to carry one person to and from a station, with a heavy carbon footprint on mass.

So what alternatives do you have? Cycling at 7 in the morning may seem fine for some in the summer, but in the winter it's no fun at the end of the day when all you want to do is get home. So what alternatives exist other than public transport?

Apart from walking, cycling, or a skateboard or rollerblades, the only other via options have been either a car or moped. With tax, MOT, and parking to consider, forgetting the environmental impact, surely there is another way?

Well yes.

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Ever wondered what happened to your recycling?

For those in recycle initiative areas, the rules of recycling are different.

Some places recycle plastics, others do not. SSome recycle glass. Others  do not. Some collect waste food, others do not. And with each there are many grey areas in between, with the expectation that each individual will distinguish between polythene and poly-ethylene, or separating raw and cooked food for example.

So what happens to it?

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Good for you but not for the planet. Organic food collect air miles

Recent debate has erupted following the publicity surrounding how far food takes to get to us, and the environmental impact in terms of food miles.

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