Here's a set of useful bits and bobs to make your powerpoint presentation heaps better.

Calculate your carbon footprint.

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Interesting ideas of ways to recycle unwanted items.

Ways to recycle in the UK.

The NEF empowers individuals and organisations to take action to reduce their carbon emissions through energy efficiency and use of sustainable energy sources.

If you're looking for help to cut your carbon footprint, tips on how to make more environmentally friendly choices or ideas on how to communicate environmental messages you'll find them here.

KeepCup is an alternative to the disposable variety.

Waste Connect is a reference for recycling points throughout the country, helping households and businesses to manage their waste.

Earth Day is on 22 April each year. Their mission is to broaden and diversify the environmental movement worldwide, and to mobilize it as the most effective vehicle for promoting a healthy, sustainable environment. They pursue their mission through a combination of education, public policy, and consumer activism campaigns.

Choose What You Read is a reaction to the thousands of free newspapers given out every day to commutors and thrown away. This is an opportunity to read a book instead, donated by the public.

Follow the blog of the Green family who are working towards a zero waste household. They update daily on tips and experiences to show that reducing household waste is possible, saves you money and helps to protect the environment.

Why recycle when you can upcycle!

Are you a 'Competitive Printer', and 'Old School Printer' or a Pedestal Printer?

All of your recycling needs answered here.

Cinnabar eco–creative is a Dorset based consultancy that focuses on creative approaches to raising awareness of sustainability and ecology. They also have some inter-gen projects in the pipeline...

The Love Food Hate Waste campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste. The campaign shows that by doing some easy practical everyday things in the home we can all waste less food, which will ultimately benefit our purses and the environment too.

Ecomodo is the marketplace of good returns. Lend and borrow each other's everyday objects, skills and spaces.

• In 2002/3 Industrial and Commercial waste in England totalled 68 million tonnes. Of this about 38 million tonnes was attributable to industry and 30 million to commerce. The individual sector that produced the most waste was the retail sector, which generated nearly 13 million tonnes of waste. This was followed by food, drink and tobacco manufacturing, and the professional services and other businesses, both producing more than 7 million tonnes, and the coke, oil, gas, electricity and water industries at just over 6 million tonnes.
• Each year we generate about 100 million tonnes of waste from households, commerce and industry.
• Approximately 70% of office waste is recyclable, but on average only 7.5% reaches a recycling facility.
• 80.6m tonnes of printing and writing paper enters the waste stream each year in the UK - 24% of total UK waste.
• Recycling one tonne of paper can save 7,000 gallons of water. It also saves 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, and 4,000 kilowatts of energy.
• The average office worker uses 50 sheets of paper a day in unnecessary printing, figures show.
• You can recycle many goods at charity shops. Find A Shop.
• The following goods can also be recycled:

  Bicycles: large Oxfam shops may accept bicycles, otherwise contact Re-cycle (www.re-cycle.org) who send second-hand bikes to Africa.
  Computers: give to Computeraid International (www.computeraid.org), Computers for African Schools (www.cfas.org.uk), Donate a PC (www.donateapc.org.uk) or IT specialists in the Furniture Reuse Network (www.frn.org.uk).
  Food (non-perishable): give to Global Hand (www.globalhand.org), who can also take goods as varied as relief supplies, vehicles, textbooks, construction equipment and boats.
  Medical equipment: give to Mercy Ships (www.mercyships.org.uk).
  Sewing machines: give to Tools for Self Reliance (www.tfsr.org).
  Spectacles: many opticians run charity programmes with second-hand glasses, including Dolland & Aitchison (www.danda.co.uk), Eyesite (www.eyesiteonline.co.uk), Vision Express (www.visionexpress.com).
  Tools: Tools for bicycle repairs, blacksmiths, carpenters, engineers, mechanics, and shoe repairs are all welcomed by Tools for Self Reliance (www.tfsr.org).