Playgrounds are a great place for your child to have fun, get much needed exercise away from the television and games consoles and have a good dose of fresh air but before you let your child, of any age, play in your local playground there are a few checks on the playground safety you should make:

Take a good look at the playground and how well it is maintained: (more…)

Over the past few decades, some people had the bright idea to build artificial reefs with tires. Now when I first head this, I imagined little colorful rubber plants and rocks – what a great idea!

No, it didn’t mean this, well not in the case of Osborne Reef, off the coast of Fort Lauderdale. In the 1970s, over 200 million tires were ‘reused’ and clipped together with steel clips and ceremoniously dumped in an effort to replicate a reef that game fish would inhabit.

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Last year, it was recorded by Earth first that more than 1.3 billion tires were sold and that 75% of these purchases were to replace old worn out tires. That means that over one billion tires a year are being thrown away as waste. Now to stop this from having a huge environmental impact recycled tires are being used in a variety of innovative ways.

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Have you ever walked past someone’s garden looked down between the plants and seen all that mulch stuff that people use. Well it is not all wood. Can you believe that some of these gardens use rubber? That’s right – rubber mulch;

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As every 8 year old, I thought I was an aerobatic genius on the climbing frame. This was until, whilst hanging upside down my legs slipped, I fell off banging my head on the cold, hard concrete ground below.

I got up, shook myself off, checked that not too many people had seen me and took a few steps and passed out cold. I woke up to ‘is he still alive?’

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