by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 22, 2026 | Tech & Gadgets, Trending
Key takeaways Any shop that sells more than 32kg of portable batteries a year has to take your dead ones back free, and it cannot make you buy new ones to do it. That is regulation 31 of the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009. The recycling cost is...
by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 21, 2026 | Energy, Trending
Instant £ per hour, night, week and month at 26.32p/kWh (Ofgem cap, 1 Oct to 31 Dec 2026). Heaters, electric blankets, dehumidifiers. From 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, Ofgem's price cap sets the GB-average Direct Debit electricity unit rate at 26.32p per kWh....
by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 21, 2026 | Home & Garden, Trending
Key takeaways From 1 October 2026 the Ofgem cap is £1,723 a year, with electricity at 26.32p per kWh and no VAT on it until 31 March 2027. Gas is 7.97p per kWh including 5% VAT. That puts a 2kW plug-in bedroom heater at 52.6p an hour, or £4.21 for an...
by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 19, 2026 | Kitchen & Appliances, Trending
Key takeaways The Drinking Water Inspectorate classes water under 100 mg/l calcium carbonate as soft, and cites the WHO figure that scale forms at 200 mg/l or above. Below 200 you are buying a descaler for a problem your tap water is not causing. We costed...
by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 18, 2026 | Health & Wellness, Trending
Key takeawaysThe ISO size printed on a pack comes from ISO 16409:2016, which only covers manual brushes with a round head on a wire stem. Plastic core brushes, powered brushes, floss, tape and filament free picks all sit outside that standard, so they carry no ISO...
