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Most people tend to neglect their garages when it comes to modernisation projects. The truth however is that there are numerous gadgets that you can install in order to maximise the usage of the room and make it more secure. Here are some amazing pieces of technology which you will undoubtedly want to have in your garage.

Garage beacon: Don’t you hate it when you have to get out of your car during a rainy, windy or snowy day in order to open your garage door? If you do then know that there is no need to purchase an expensive door control system as you can simply place a garage beacon and use it to convert your smartphone into a door opener. The app will also allow you to input a secret pin code so that only yon and your family can access the garbage and more importantly will allow you to monitor your garage door while you are not at home.

Car security system: This gadget will track your automobile while you have parked it in your garage. It will alert you as soon as your car is moving without prior authorisation. By opting to install this piece of technology you will be able to enjoy your sleep and travels to the full as you will have the peace of mind that your automobile is being watched by a trustworthy friend.

Parking assist system: This system will permit you to always park your car in the sweet spot of your garage. It uses an infrared beam to track the course of your automobile and has a large bright red light that will lit every time that you car is perfectly positioned. With this gadget you won’t have to worry that you may hit your automobile and more importantly you won’t have to get out of your car in order to determined whether the door will close or not. If you have a two-automobile garage, know that there is a dual variation of the system that can track two cars simultaneously.

Bumper and door guards: Mount these bumper guards to the backside of your garbage and you will never have to worry about the well-being of your bumpers as they will protect them from potential scratches, cracks and breaks. You can also place door guards that will stop you from slamming your automobile’s doors into the side walls of your garage.

Once you have fully modernised your garage, don’t try clearing the accumulated junk on your own. Instead contact and hire a rubbish removal company as some type of waste can be collected only by licensed contractors. Even more, by doing so you will have the comfort of knowing that all the garbage will be properly cleared and disposed. Don’t worry about the price of rubbish removal services as nowadays most companies work with fair and reasonable prices.

Extra suggestion: A ceiling lifter will allow you to keep items such as bicycles, scooters, kayaks in the air which will ultimately increase the storage capacity of your garage. The ceiling lifters are easy to use as they are operated via an app on your smartphone.

Recent research shows that recycling is again on the rise among household throughout the world and in the UK in particular. This is good news of course. As you may know, the first wave of recycling enthusiasm came at the end of the 1980s and in the 1990s it was in its heyday. It was followed by a short decline and it is now again a trendy thing.

Proper recycling habits are important for a variety of reasons. For starters, it teaches responsibility towards the environment and maintaining the ecological balance that we all should cherish and look after. Second, recycling improves rubbish removal practices in cities and households, making the places we live in much more pleasant and looked after. So there is no reason why you should and could not teach your kids to recycle from an early age. Thus you will be making them a great good because:

• They will learn more about the planet we live in and how important it is every single one of us to pay their due in the mission to protect it. By educating your little ones you will be making the world a better place – one that is much more pleasant to live in. Taking up and passing on recycling is a form of investment in the future.
• It will be good for their personal growth too. Recycling takes a bit of perseverance and effort, like any good habit you can think of. So, if you encourage your kids to participate in the recycling activities at home – no matter whether it is separating the trash in categories, building composts etc. – you will be teaching them to be more effective in their lives too – following a goal which results are not immediately visible becomes harder and harder to do at our age and time, when we are used to getting everything right away. So, you will be contributing to the personal future of your kids too by telling them about recycling and encouraging them to take it up.
• Kids who recycle are much more likely to feel better about themselves too. You should tell them why doing the things you make them do is so important and the positive ways in which they contribute to the world. Basically, by growing up recycling, little kids grow up to be better people, who possess a well-deserved confidence.
• You will ensure that the generation to come will go on recycling. Passing on this great and very useful habit is the best way to guarantee that the fight for better living conditions and seizing both pollution and waste of resources on a global scale is going to be won.

There are only several quite basic points. So, instead of putting it off for a better time, sit down your kids and teach them about recycling. You know very well that this is the only right thing to do and the best part is that it is not that hard at all.

Well, everyone should go green nowadays, but the problem is many people think that living in an environmentally responsible manner is something costly and unwise from a purely financial point of view. There is no bigger misconception out there than that green lifestyle is reserved only for the rich. Check out the following suggestions for cheap eco friendly lifestyle:

• Do not heat a house that is empty. No matter whether we are talking about heating during the day when everyone is at work or school, or for prolonged periods of time, it is unwise, because it is not environmentally responsible, and because it would have an effect on your utilities bill that you would like.
• Turn off your computer after you are finished using it. The thing is even when the laptop/PC goes to sleep, it continues to suck energy. By turning it off you will reduce your electricity bill and at the same time reduce waste of energy and resources for its production, which is one of the greatest treads to the environmental balance as of today.
• Optimize your junk removal at home by regularly thinking about ways in which to reduce the junk produced at your home. For example, you can start composting organic waste materials, or come up with creating ways in which to use old clothes, furniture etc. If you cannot, remember – one man’s junk is another man’s treasure, so you can start selling some of the unnecessary items you have at home online – in this way you will even be able to earn a little money.
• If public transportation is no good for you when it comes to your daily commute to work, you should consider carpooling. It is not a novel idea – the practice has been around in the United States in Britain, as well as other corners of the world for over a decade, and it is a great way to both travel comfortably and save yourself some money.
• Batteries are one of the most frequently produced items of junk by households. Well, the problem is that they are also a real pain to dispose of and recycle, so it might be a good idea to think about going for rechargeable batteries on a permanent basis. It might be a bit more expensive in the beginning, but there is no need to tell you that in the long run it will save you a bit of cash.
• You can always support green businesses. Avoid the fashionable green food chain stores, which tend to be unnecessary expensive. But there is nothing wrong with doing your weekly grocery shopping at the local farmers’ market. Local farmers will sell you good food on a good price, and it will be greener, healthier and cheaper than anything you are able to buy from the supermarket.
• Forget about plastic bags. A linen one is more durable, eco-friendly and you will not be charged for every bag that you take from the store as well, so it will even save you money.

Today we are going to present you some pointers on how you can create the perfect and most welcoming guest room.

Start by painting the walls in a neutral colour such as white, grey, beige and so on. Neutral colors are adored by everybody and more important don’t affect human behavior and mood. This way your guests will also feel comfortable and cozy.

Once the paint has dried contact a junk removal company and have it come and collect the rubbish that has accumulated during the painting. It is for the best if you use professional waste clearance services as contractors that provide the services can handle the job much more quickly than you and more importantly because you have other things to take care of before your guests arrive.

Now that your guest room is junk-free, grab an empty basket or garbage bag and start collecting all the items that aren’t supposed to be in the room. Once you have amassed everything, sort them into three piles: to keep, to throw and to donate.

Clean the room from top to bottom. Vacuum the carpet and wash the curtains. Wipe clean all the surfaces and if necessary launder the upholstery. Open the windows and allow all nasty odors to get out. When done you can place an aromatiser to freshen the interior air on a frequent basis.

Next place a bed that is large enough to accommodate easily two people. The main function of your guest room is to provide your visitors the rest that they need after their tiring days. Also always place a new set of bed linens before your guests arrive. The scent of freshly washed sheets will give a more welcoming atmosphere to the room.

Flank the bed with two night tables, so that your visitors can have a place where they can place a glass of water for the night, their cell phones, books, magazines and etc. Speaking of books and magazines, always leave reading materials in the room. This way, your guests will have something to do while they are relaxing.

If you wish you can also arrange a television and stereo system in the room. By doing so, you will give to your visitors the opportunity to watch their favorite movies and TV shows without them feeling uncomfortable that you may be watching something that isn’t interesting to you because of them.

If the room has its own bathroom, make sure that you change the old towels with new ones. Also head to your local store and purchase new bottles of liquid soap and shampoo. Last but not least replace the toilet paper and leave several extra rolls.

Empty the wardrobe and leave a large amount of hangers, so that your guests can properly unpack their clothes and arrange them meticulously into the closet. Don’t forget to place scented tablets into the wardrobe.

As you can see preparing the ideal guest room isn’t as hard as you may think, you simply have to follow these steps and you will be able to provide to your visitors a marvelous stay at your place.

We live in a wonderful world. Today you can order anything online – from junk removal services to food to plane tickets. Every spot on the map is more connected to the other than ever before, which actually makes travelling abroad not only easier and comfortable, but also more accessible and affordable. If you are tired of the conventional vacation destinations, you might consider booking your next plane ticket to some of the following rather unconventional and exotic, but still quite peculiar and exciting destinations:

• Albania

This small country in the corner of the Balkan Peninsula usually remains on the periphery of tourist’s attention. The reasons for that are varied, but most notably it is the recent history of violence in the region as well as the rather underdeveloped economy that the country has. The social unrest is long in the past now, and the relatively poor economy means that it would be very cheap for you to travel there. And Albania has a lot of great things to offer you – from beautiful deserted beaches to breathtaking nature in the mountains, well preserved village life that you will definitely find interesting and much more.

• The Republic of South Africa

Africa is often consider either as a place that is dangerous to go to because of civil war and underdevelopment, or in the best case scenario – a place for really adventurous souls who are into hunting exotic animals or trekking in vast desolate areas. Well, even thought that might be so to a certain extent, the Republic of South Africa will provide you with the chance to both get the full African experience together with the exotic animals, and enjoy a perfectly good vacation at some of the great beaches in the coastal regions, along with the all-inclusive hotels and everything. South Africa is also a very popular surfing destination.

• Honduras

If you want to make your family vacation as adventurous as possible at a destination any of your friends has ever visited, then you should definitely come to Honduras. No matter whether it is magnificent beaches you are interested in, or exploring the wildlife in a real tropical jungle, or even swimming with sharks, Honduras will be the place where all your dreams are going to come true. The coastal town of Roatan is Honduras’s most popular destination, but it still manages to stay under the radar of regular tourists.

• Italy

We know, we know. Italy is not the first place that it comes to mind when you say “unconventional travel locations”. But we do not suggest your usual tourist pack with visits to Rome, Venice and Pisa, but one much more unique experience, e.g. the city of Alberobello. Most people have not heard of the place, and that is only good news for you. The city has been built in the 14^th century and it literally completely preserved from that time. What is more, it is built in a distinct architectural style called trulli. It is one of the most unique places in Europe.

Like any other piece of machinery, the average rubbish removal truck has come a long way. As most people have seen, especially in the UK, there are quite a few different types of rubbish removal trucks in use, and they have quite different equipment, processing capacity and purpose. Rubbish removal vehicles in the UK have been changing along with industry and municipal requirements for at least ten years now. It is the composition and volume of municipal and industrial waste streams that have called for the need for better, more efficient and technically advanced rubbish trucks to be put in use.

In the early two thousands it was decided that the UK will move from an almost entirely landfill based waste management system, to one in which more than fifty percent of all municipal waste is recycled or otherwise processed. Shortly after the system was implemented but as it turned out the technical infrastructure, including rubbish removal trucks was not up to the new requirements and hampered the new collection and recycled system to some extent. At the time, engineers and local authorities sat together to figure out what needed to be done. Overnight development and construction of new rubbish removal trucks featuring all that was required was simply out of the question as it would have been simply too expensive and too slow, plus not all of the required technology was available at the time.

In result, adaptations and modifications had to be made on existing vehicles so that new requirements could be met. One of the main sources and inspiration of new technology were small scale, either private or public waste management and recycling operations which dealt with specific types of waste. Some of the equipment and technology adopted from small scale, specialised waste management operations was adapted for deployment on large vehicle fleets usually in use by local authorities. Some of these are now common and standard on all rubbish removal vehicles.

Day to day use of these newly equipped vehicles has made collection as well as further processing of waste more efficient and less resource intensive as some of the pre-processing of waste is done on board the collection vehicle right after rubbish removal. There were other specific issues to be addressed like the type of waste i.e. its composition, the new trucks had to be fitted specifically for the type of rubbish they were collecting and pre-processing, again this was done using new pieces of technology adopted from specialised waste management operations. Another aspect of waste collection vehicle modernisation was redesigning and equipping the truck to be able to transport larger volume of waste rather than higher weights of rubbish. Again, this was signalled by changing patterns in consumption which in turn alter waste stream composition.

Equipment was also developed and implemented to even out loads safely, without human interaction. Evening of loads meant that available storage space in the vehicle was used much more efficiently without risking injury to operators. New health and safety instructions were also devised to keep staff safe while they step off the vehicle in heavy traffic conditions.

The United Kingdom might be a world leader in certain departments, but when it comes to recycling and regulations outlining it, there seems to be a lot of feet dragging. The ineffective recycling policies in effect throughout the United Kingdom aren’t only to do with lack of will or lack of understanding on behalf of policy makers, twenty fifteen also turned out to be a year of various challenges to be faced by everyone, from businesses, to waste management industry, to politicians and economic policy makers.

One of the most evident problems in the chain of recycling in the UK is plastic. This is not to do with ineffective plastic rubbish removal or something similar, but a complex chain of local and worldwide events.

Plastic recycling regulations are not only outdated, they are also backward in many ways. The plastic recycling industry in the United Kingdom is basically on its knees for most part of twenty fifteen. First of all, the falling oil prices have also brought down the price of so called virgin plastic i.e. new plastic made through traditional oil refining industry methods. Second of all, companies in the United Kingdom don’t have the economic incentive to buy and use recycled plastic since it is cheaper than recycled plastic. Last but not least, government regulations are requiring companies to do it, and why should they – no business would be willing to pay more for raw materials when they can obtain them cheaper, though in a not-ecofriendly way.

In such times of economic austerity businesses, industry and government are truly testing the ‘moral compass’ of large companies in the United Kingdom. At the moment, large British brands are chasing reduction of operating costs as austerity and cuts left, right and centre are leaving some companies gasping for air. So naturally, such businesses are restructuring and reorganising their means of operation solely for the purpose of reducing cost. Should the economic situation be different, the large players in the economy would be able to support the country’s circular economy and still keep their running costs at the proper levels. To swing things back to plastic – large brands are finding it cheaper and more efficient to buy virgin plastic for manufacturing of their products and packaging, as opposed to buying recycled plastic (which is just as technologically suitable) but more expensive at  the moment.

Industry specialists say that before coming out the woods, there will be a big storm – in economic terms. Oil and fossil fuel supplies are diminishing by the day, despite their cheap market right now. The world is changing, so is the way of doing business and manufacturers and big companies will have to eventually wake up to the facts.  Oil prices will grow rapidly in the next one to five years and so taking a gamble with recycled materials such as plastic right now, will reap many rewards later on when the old balance is renewed. Perhaps the only branch of business to be taking that gamble right now is the UK’s dairy industry.

The value of precious metals has been known to mankind for millennia. However not all precious metals received their fair share of worth and value as for instance gold and silver.

Take for instance platinum, today people have realised it is one of the rearrest and most precious elements to form in earth’s crust. This wasn’t always the case though, if the Spanish conquistadors were still around, they would vouch for it. Platinum was first discovered in the mines of Central America by Spanish miners exploiting for silver in the fourteenth century. Back then, they viewed it as simple metal impurity which made silver mining a little harder, so platinum was extracted and removed, little that they know. Interestingly enough, the Spanish named this so called impurity ‘Platina’ which meant ‘little silver’. Fast forward half a millennium or so, and the value attached to platinum couldn’t be further from the one that the Spanish colonialists attached to it.

What makes platinum group metals (PGMs) so valuable? A number of things – first of all they are really scarce, meaning there are hardly any naturally formed amounts to be mined anywhere on Earth, second of all PGMs are really tricky and expensive to mine and extract – they require advanced technology, lots of manpower and hefty financial investments on behalf of mining corporations. Last but not least, PGMs have specific properties which are unique and not seen in any other naturally occurring metals or elements. The Platinum Group Metals are six metallic elements clustered together on the periodic table, namely they are ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum, the mere names of these elements imply their uniqueness and underline the fact that they cannot be derived from metal rubbish removal and recycling of tin cans.

Industrially, the six PG metals are present in quarter of all products manufactured in the world today. They are highly sought after due to their extreme chemical attack resistance, thermo insulation or conduction properties also their steady electro conduction characteristics. In the last five years (since twenty ten) the demand for platinum alone has increased dramatically yet the increase in production is simply insignificant in terms of meeting that demand. During the same period of time however, recycling of platinum has established itself as one of the most profitable and important branches of the recycling industry as a whole.

With the advancement of recycling technologies, it is becoming more evident that other metals from the PG are also in high demand due to their properties. This opens a path toward new types of recycling. One of the biggest needers of platinum and similar metals of the same group is the automotive industry. Car makers are constructing more and more vehicles each year, especially the light passenger segment. The replacement of ‘outdated’ production materials in favour of new, stronger and better performing ones is also driving the need for PGMs and their recycling rate. Recovery of precious PGMs from the waste stream is expected to become a profitable and essentially important segment of alternative supply dotation.

Having a backyard attached to your home is one of the most important features that you might hope for, and the reasons for that are so many:

• First, it gives you a sense of independence – a detached house with an outdoor space is the perfect way to feel truly independent from neighbors and even the community. My home is my castle is a popular British saying, and no one can deny that a castle is much better with green pastures attached to it.
• An outdoor space gives you so much room for activities of all sorts. The backyard is perfect for throwing a under-the-stars party for your friends and family during the warmer months of summer. You or your kids can play games, or just lie around sunbathing and reading during the leisure hours of the weekend. You can utilize the space you have available for your interests and needs. You can build a shack in which to keep your instruments, or put a ping-pong table, built a pool or whatever else you can think of.
• You can built a patio or a deck in your outdoor space, cover it with a relevant tent and make it a great place to hang out at. Even during the autumn it might very well turn out to be your favorite place in the house, because there are very useful and efficient heaters specifically designed for decks and patios, which fight off the cold, and with a proper roofing, even rain will not be trouble.
• Your kids are going to have a place where to play outside and still be safe. Streets are no longer the preferred place for kids to hang around, but you can utilize the backyard in a perfect way, so that they never get bored, and still you can keep an eye on the little trouble-makers at all times. A tree house or a swing made out of an old tyre would be the perfect additions to your backyard, and quite enough to make them attractive to your kids and their friends.
• You can build the garden of your dreams in your home. Flowerbeds, small fountains, well trimmed hedges and trees, and of course beautiful paths that fit organically into the landscape can turn your backyard into a fairytale land you will just love working in. It will make your home a much better place, and also one everyone is going to be envious for. Don’t worry, even if you do not have enough time to look after the garden, or just don’t feel particularly up to the task for another reason, you can always hire a professional to do the job for you. Be advised that most rubbish removal companies today also offer very comprehensive gardening services, which is a great thing, bearing in mind that a garden produces quite a lot of waste, which the specialists at the company in question would best advise you what to do with, or just take care of the problem themselves.