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In the garden

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How to prepare for outdoor dining

July 17, 2011

The holiday season is here and it’s time to make the most of the weather and invite some friends over for lunch or dinner in the great outdoors! There’s nothing quite like eating outside to really make it feel like Summer.  So make sure you are kitted out with the right utensils – introducing our [...]

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How you can compost at home and help save the planet

May 11, 2011

Did you know that a third of the average household bin, containing items like fruit and vegetable peelings, teabags, cardboard and newspapers, can be composted? Composting at home, for just one year, can save global warming gases equivalent to all the CO2 your kettle produces annually, or your washing machine produces in three months.  Your compost will [...]

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Brabantia Life’s Essential Weekly ‘Hot Trends Monitor’

April 9, 2011

Hopefully you are all enjoying the amazing hot weather this weekend.  As the weather improves our thoughts turn to the garden and outside entertaining space.  So this week we are looking at some of the new ‘must have’ items for our gardens this Summer: If garden space is an issue or if you live in [...]

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How to save 213kg of CO2 each year using a Brabantia rotary dryer

February 9, 2011

Spring is just around the corner, so it’s time to forget the hot air and spin, and start thinking about the environment and your pocket too! Continuing with our theme of environmental awareness, we are voting out the tumble dryer and bringing in the rotary dryer! We were heartened to read Jaff’s Juicy Bits blog [...]

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Carbon Free Clothes Drying from Brabantia

July 5, 2010

Environmentalists, politicians and power companies around the globe are striving to find carbon neutral ways of generating electricity, and spending millions of dollars trying to make solar, wind and wave power viable. In the meantime, fossil fuel or nuclear power generation is still being used to create the electricity needed to run your tumble drier.  [...]

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The Joys Of Air-Dried Laundry

May 31, 2010

When I moved at the end of last year, my garden went from large enough for a circus troupe to swing wildcats in formation to, well, the size of a postage stamp. With me and my flatmate vying for space – her an avid botanist, me a keen cyclist, the garden soon filled with plants, [...]

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