Emma Murphy, co-editor of Portsmouth Green Party’s Shades of Green blog, shares the challenges and opportunities of combining environmentally-friendly living with a tight budget. You may not know this about me, but I am really, [… read more ]
By Linda L. Hillborne Jacinta flicked through the clothes rail in the unconventional little boutique, which stood on the corner of Osborne Road in Southsea. A memory blinked across her mind. ‘Make do and mend,’ [… read more ]
By Helen Salsbury Day 1 That first day, he’s still half asleep. It’s raining, and he plods from lamppost to lamppost – nicotine light and dirty grey pavements – as fast as his banjaxed knee [… read more ]
Although the South East is home to some of the top-performing councils for recycling, Portsmouth is currently the third worst performing in the region, according to a new recycling rate map based on data from [… read more ]
In the last of a three part series running this week, Emma Murphy from the Shades of Green blog adds some more items many assume cannot be recycled in Pompey. Note: This article was originally [… read more ]
In the second of a three part series running this week, Tamara Groen from the Shades of Green blog gives you all the information you need on recycling items many assume cannot be recycled. Note: [… read more ]
Portsmouth has one of the lowest recycling rates in the country. In the first of a three part series running this week, Tamara Groen from the Shades of Green blog gives you all the information [… read more ]
Portsmouth City Council (PCC) has one of the lowest recycling rates in the UK, coming in at 340th out of 352 local authorities for the period April 2016 to March 2017, with only 24.7% of [… read more ]
Do you ever get frustrated when something breaks and the only option seems to be to ditch and replace it? A group of local residents are looking to change that by opening Portsmouth’s first Repair [… read more ]
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