Recycling Issues...
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Anaerobic Digestion: Alternative to Composting
Green waste in one form or another makes up a major component of our refuse. Garden waste makes up around 20 per cent of the material that the...
Are Edible Wrappers the Future of Food Packaging?
Food packaging often comes in for a lot of criticism and there’s no getting around the fact that much of it is deserved, particularly when it...
Campaign to Reduce Plastic Carrier Bags
A nationwide campaign to cut down on plastic carrier bags has reduced the number used in supermarkets by more than 3.5 billion per year....
Choose Your Christmas Tree Carefully
Every year, more than 6 million Christmas trees are bought in the UK, leaving us with a huge rubbish problem once the festive season is over.
If even half of...
Composting Almost Everything
Composting is the wonder method for converting food into fertiliser. It is a science, and an art form. Composting takes all the elements of heat, light, dark,...
Cutting 'Recycling Miles'
Ten years ago and almost no one had heard of food miles; today almost nobody hasn’t – and it has revolutionised the way a huge section of the population shops....
Energy from Waste
Claiming back some of the usefulness of material that would otherwise have simply been discarded has an obvious appeal and as a way of dealing with two of the...
Facts and Trivia About Waste
Not so very long ago, waste was a distinctly un-cool subject, something that no one really wanted to talk about – at least, not in public. How times change! Today,...
Green Funerals : Recycling Our Remains
As well as the way we live our lives, how we die and what happens to our bodies is also a significant environmental issue. It is all very well...
How to Shop Sustainably
It’s all well and good rinsing out your bottles and cans to take to the recycling point – but how eco-friendly is your shopping list in the first place?...
Microbes: Forgotten Recycling Helpers
As you fill your recycling box, or place those cleaned, washed and colour-sorted bottles in the bottle-bank, spare a thought for some of the...
Reducing Your Food Waste
Reducing the waste from food in a domestic household is a major contribution to recycling and reducing waste in general. Some 40% of a household weekly waste output...
Storing Recycled Waste at MOD bases
The UK recycling and waste disposal Industries are currently negotiating with the MOD (Ministry of Defence) to store recyclable waste at MOD bases up and down the...
The Benefits of Compost
As a way to recycle the staggeringly large amounts of waste food, kitchen leftovers and garden refuse we generate annually, composting is big – and getting bigger by...
The Thermal Recycling Controversy
The idea of getting energy from waste has a long history, and at different times and in different parts of the world, a variety of methods have been tried. The...
What to Do With Your Unwanted Plastic Carrier Bags?
According to latest estimates, the average household in Britain is home to around 400 plastic carrier bags per year.
Most people now...
What's in the Average Home's Waste?
The world of waste management gives rise to some wonderful facts and statistics – it’s just that sort of a field. If every aluminium can in the UK was recycled, for...
