hidden in plain sight: what the recycling crisis...
The recycling industry is in crisis,yet for most Australians its out of mind beyond the rattle of...
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zero waste bloggers: the millennials who can fit a...
These bloggers treasure taking a sleek,modern approach to reducing waste in their efforts to save...
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telling litterers to change is a waste of time....
Instead of trying to change people’s behaviour,the problem needs to be tackled at source – that...
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gloucestershire is building a big bonfire of...
A 70-metre-high waste incinerator is being built next to the M5Marooned on the flatlands between the...
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fly tipping has turned rambling into a weirdly...
Dumping has surely reached tipping point when a countryside walk involves white goods as well as...
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one in five uk households dump a loaf of bread in...
Campaign to cut Britain’s food waste finds 24m slices of bread are thrown out by households every...
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recycling: how corporate australia played us for...
Australians tried to attain the accurate thing by recycling but corporations shifted responsibility...
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caffeine hit: what happens to britains 3bn empty...
Britons drink more than 8m takeaway coffees every day then throw away the cups. Why are so few...
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we are on the verge of a litter crisis british...
Volunteers will tackle the country’s worst litter sites in March in what is being billed as the...
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hugh fearnley whittingstall rejects morrisons...
Supermarket’s test of customer support for cosmetically imperfect vegetables fails to convince...
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from babies bums to fatbergs: how we fell out of...
We now use 14000 of the handy cloths every moment - but they are increasingly clogging rivers and...
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coffee shops not doing enough to combat huge...
Just 1% of the 2.5bn disposable cups thrown absent each year in the UK are recycled,committee of MPs...
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can we turn the whitechapel fatberg into...
The human-waste bomb recently found clogging up a London sewer has an unlikely admirer – a...
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launch of tescos frozen avocados could help reduce...
Tesco’s ‘speedily-frozen’ de-stoned and peeled avocado packs could help to cut down on the...
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black friday to cause spikes in air pollution and...
The shopping frenzy will see 82000 diesel delivery vans on UK streets,with plastic toys and...
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reusable incentives could slash disposable coffee...
Free reusables,25p charge on disposables and green slogans in cafes could cut some of 2.5bn cups...
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hikers: eat bananas - but take your skins home
They take two years to biodegrade – and Scottish mountains are littered with themI fill climbed...
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from stools to fuels: the street lamp that runs on...
Turning turds into power is not new but most of this energy still goes to waste. A host of...
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uk households wasting 34,000 tonnes of beef each...
Research shows £260m worth of raw and cooked beef items move to waste annually - equivalent to 300m...
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reducing food waste would mitigate climate change,...
Scientists estimate up to 14% of emissions from agriculture in 2050 could be avoided by managing...
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uks winter floods create 30,000 tonnes of landfill...
Furniture,kitchen goods and carpets ‘contaminated’ by floodwater can’t be recycled and will...
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flytipping in england rises for second year...
Figures present there were nearly 900000 incidents of illegally dumped rubbish on...
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edible water bottle to cause a splash at eu...
Biodegradeable water packaging made from seaweed and new way of dyeing clothes have won joint award...
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borough market to phase out plastic bottle sales...
London’s historic food market also aims to achieve zero landfill with biodegradable packaging and...
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uk beach litter rises by a third, report finds
Thousands of plastic bottles clogging up seaside locations,along with cans, glass and crisp packets,...
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budget weakens recycling targets days after report...
Campaigners criticise UK government for watering down targets on plastic packaging recycling despite...
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eu drops food waste and marine litter reduction...
Weakened draft regulations omit a new law that would bear obliged countries to reduce waste by 30%...
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supermarkets pledge to cut food waste 20% by 2025
Local authorities and retailers including Asda,Sainsbury’s and Tesco sign voluntary Courtauld 2025...
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uk families blow twice as much money on food waste...
YouGov study for Sainsbury’s reveals tall cost of Britain’s food waste,with the average family...
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california bans microbeads to protect marine life
US state to phase out use of tiny plastic beads found in soap,toothpaste and body washes by 2020, in...
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stella mccartney calls for overhaul of incredibly...
UK fashion designer backs Ellen MacArthur foundation campaign to finish the global fashion industry...
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coffee shops not doing enough to combat huge...
Just 1% of the 2.5bn disposable cups thrown absent each year in the UK are recycled,committee of MPs...
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how to produce nearly zero trash in a year - in...
Kathryn Kellogg aims to reduce the amount of waste she produces to almost nothing. She buys...
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chris packham photographs the impact of litter ...
TV presenter Chris Packham has unveiled a series of images exploring the impact of litter on...
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asda puts uks first supermarket wonky veg box on...
Box of imperfect in-season vegetables will feed a family of four for a week and costs £3.50 – 30%...
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fatberg ahead! how london was saved from a 15...
Team of sewerage workers took three weeks to clear bus-sized toxic ball of beefy that threatened to...
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