How can you do your bit to help save our planet?

If some of them aren't practical to your circumstances, just remember that the important thing is to do your best – do what you can!

Here's our top 30 suggestions

1. Re-use envelopes by purchasing sticky labels (there are many worthwhile causes to support in this : Friends of the Earth 020 7490 1555, or Baby Milk Action 01223 464420 among many others) to put on envelopes that are sent to you. It's cheaper too!
2. Use your local recycling scheme if you have one. If you haven't got one, ask why not and lobby your local politician for change.
3. Send e-cards not paper or card ones. The thought is what's important, not the material. If you add up the cost over a year's celebrations it really does make a difference.
4. Use rechargeable batteries instead of disposables.
5. Reuse plastic bags. To help you remember to do this, keep some in your pocket or handbag – they don't take up much space and it stops you accumulating bags at home.
6. Buy your fruit and vegetables from a local market or grocers. Support your local Farmers – you'll be amazed how good the fresh food is! Buy organic produce wherever possible.
7. Use cloths rather than disposable kitchen roll. Saves you money!
8. Home compost as much of your kitchen and garden waste as possible.
9. Use the paper-recycling scheme at work. If there isn't one, why not start one?
10. Take all your cans to a Recycle Bank. ...there should be one near you. If not, why not? 
11. Think before you print! How many times have you printed something and not referred to it again?
12. If you do print, use both sides of a piece of paper.
13. Recycle your Printer cartridges.
14. Turn off any electrical equipment when it's not in use.....you'd be surprised how many items this applies to!
15. Don't buy sandwiches from shops – save on packaging and expense by making your own. This way you can control exactly what you're eating – good for the waistline as well as the pocket!
16. Join a toy library and give old toys to other families.
17. Did you think milk and juice cartons were impossible to recycle? ask your local politician...
18. Hire videos and DVDs rather than buying them.
19. Use the library rather than buying books
20. Don't drive to the library if you can walk. The exercise and fresh air will do you good. Remember to take your plastic bags with you!
21. Save about 40 litres of water a time by having showers instead of baths.
22. 15% of parents now use cloth nappies for their babies and the number is growing. Join them!
23. Instead of disposable goods, give cinema or concert tickets as presents.
24. Having a clear out? Before dumping your unwanted items, think about how much value they could be to someone else...charities/car boot sales/ebay.co.uk are all excellent options to simply binning it and using up landfill.
25. Borrow tools for DIY jobs from family or friends – if they can't help, hire what you need rather than buying things that you don't need more than a couple of times.
26. Don't consign your old mobile phone or printer cartridges to landfill. Instead contact 'Oxfam' who can recycle and re-sell them.
27. Stop subscribing to magazines unless you really do have time to read them! You'll save some money as well.
28. Start using renewable and recycled products.

Something that you must bear in mind is that these ideas do need some thought and sometimes a little bit of perseverence... and not just from you ...