How Long Will It Take You To Offset Your Sofa?

Normally at this time of year my inbox is laden with the weight of new releases and announcements but it feels like it's all slowed down a bit this year. Partly to do with supply lines and border issues and partly because, in what might be a sign for good, we've realised we don't all need all this new stuff all the time. I've even given up virtual shoe shopping as I barely leave the house.

But that doesn't mean there aren't interesting things being shared and this caught my eye from Heals talking about fast furniture. Some of you may remember a sponsored post I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the importance of recycling your old electrical cables and goods?

Heals has commissioned research that found that, here in the UK, we throw away 300,000 tonnes of re-usable furniture every year.I'm sure that's not news as such but they make the point that the longer you keep something the more you offset its carbon footprint, which is why it's so important to buy the right thing so you can keep i…