recycling plastic coathangers in huddersfield

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Last year I was fulminating about plastic coat hangers – well only yestrday I was ambling round Tesco when I took a detour into the clothes section. there I saw a coat hanger recycling box. For plastic ones of course

I also happened to notice lurking behind the counter in BHS a cardboard box labelled coat hanger recycling.

You could of course offer them to your local charity shop or freecycle them

Icelandic beach trash

Need a potter

or an artist. Here is a selection Kirklees based craft persons and artistes. they have been gathered together by the Host organisation. Host also organises studio open days in the Autumn – just in time to buy those hand crafted Christnas presents.

More artists can be found working in Bates Mill

Woodturning

if you fancy making your own salad bowls why not try wood turning?
Theres a Huddersfield group

Green building materials

Straw bale building

Love is in the air…

Valentines day?

Need a card?  so check these out .

Huddersfield based company and cute cards and plastic free – ooohh baby that feels really good….

Dont like wooden hearts? They have monkey cards and love words … visit the site

Read the blurb…. 100% RECYCLED WITH BIO-DEGRADABLE CLEAR BAG Printed on 100% recycled smooth white board. Each card comes with 100% recycled C6 brown craft paper envelope inside a clear bio-degradable bag. The bag is made from corn starch which is fully bio-degradable and compostable, breaking down to just CO2 and H2O – as green as you can get! Dig The Earth!

 For other plastic free cards check these out.

Coffee and PFBs

while we speak of pfbs (plastic free bikkies), there is nothing that iritates Pam more then going for a coffee and getting one of those individually plastic wrapped biscuits besides the cup. Yuck. Luckily I shop in Huddersfield so go to Coffevolution for my bean based brew. They make their own biscuits which are fantastic. …with not a wrapper between them. Other things to like – its not a chain but run by the owner, the coffe is free trade, the bagels are creamy cheesy and there are murals on the walls. Click here for more PFBs

Recycled jewels and belts

Jewellery designer Heather Shaw produces handmade, quirky pieces of jewellery. Having a particular love for recycling and reclaiming unusual pieces, to incorporate in her jewellery. Collecting vintage, antique and found objects this Huddersfield based designer produces one off quirky items of jewellery.

for more click here

Home made and Edible Lip balm

Well looks like winter is finally here – again – and the need for a good lip balm has never been greater. But whatever you use you will ingest small amounts of the product and while there are lots of good natural lip balms on the market, lots contain stuff that is not so tasty. In additional to synthetic preservatives and flavours, white petrolatum the basis of many balms, is derived from petrol. Yuk

Alternatively, making your own lip balm is really easy and can be made from natural ingredients that are actually edible. This recipe is from The Soap Tub, a Huddersfield firm that supply base ingredients for making balms, bath bombs and soaps

1 tablespoon beeswax pellets

1 tablespoon roughly chopped shea butter
1 tablespoon grated cocoa butter
1 tablespoon sweet almond oil

1 tablespoon castor oil

Melt the whole lot together and pour into little pots to set – the end result is a really nice, very effective lip balm. Pots and ingredients can be bought from The Soap Tub or as they are now called castle hill cosmetics – visit them on line at www.castlehillcosmetics.co.uk or phone them on 01484-453453
As I work out doors a lot digging mud, applying lip balm from a pot with grimy finger is not ideal. I use wind up style (lip stick type ), tubes instead of pots. You can reuse old lip balm tubes – you will need to wash them out obviously and rewind them. Sometimes you have to push the base plate down a little before they will wind down. Or you can buy new, empty tubes from www.aromantic.co
Filling the tubes is fiddly and a small funnel helps.

Queensgate Market

One of my favourite places to shop. 

Location, contact and opening times

Here you can get un wrapped cheese and ham and even smoked fish so avoiding plastic packaging (polluting and potentially damaging) .

There is also a wool shop

Finally it is a grade two listed building and not for the usual Yorkshire town Victoriana reasons but because of its blatant 70s design. Follow the links for design notes, tile association and architects comments.