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Recycling Plastic is Fantastic!
This November ends WRAP’s Recycle Now campaign called ‘Recycle Plastic – Fantastic!’. The aim of the campaign was to encourage recycling more plastic packaging, by supporting local authorities, brands and retailers in instructing consumers on the variety of plastic items which can be recycled. We spotted the posters from the campaign displayed on the lamp posts along […]
Contamination of waste – a threat to recycling
About 177 million tonnes of waste are generated in England every year. This is a poor use of resources and causes environmental damage as a lot of waste that gets sent to landfills, especially food and other organic waste, produces methane – one of the most harmful greenhouse gases. The better separation of recyclable materials […]
Food Waste to Water
Have you ever thought how much food waste ends up in landfills, rots and produces harmful greenhouse gases? Well, there are some pretty innovative people out there who are trying to reduce the amount of organic waste in an environmentally responsible way. This technology is called Waste2O which is a food waste bio-digester that turns up to 180 […]
Recycle Your Electrical Goods – Infographic
Have a look at this excellent graphic from Edwardes Bros, electrical goods wholesalers.
People’s Climate March – 7 March 2015
The Conference of the Parties in Paris this coming December is possibly the most crucial in the climate talks since Copenhagen in 2009 and will hopefully result in a strong agreement on cutting the greenhouse gases. People have been strongly mobilising against climate change – from divest fossil fuel movements to communities fighting the unsustainable energy […]
NASA visualisation of a year in life of carbon dioxide
In July 2014 NASA launched the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to make global, space-based carbon observations. In this supercomputer model, NASA shows one year of data on the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere compressed into a 3-minute video. The patterns of concentrations are impacted by large-scale weather patterns and the levels of photosynthesis depending on the time of […]
A straw bale urinal that makes compost from ‘liquid gold’
French design studio Faltazi has developed a plug-in funnel to upcycle urine and bring an eco message to summer festivals – Guardian article here
Paraguayan landfill orchestra makes sweet music from rubbish
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/apr/26/paraguay-landfill-orchestra-video Fascinating article on the children of recyclers at Cateura landfill form band playing instruments fashioned out of discarded oven trays and oil barrels
Should it brie in the bin?
Some advice from the Guardian on the shelf life of cheese!
Garbage alchemists transform junk into design gold
This video shows some ingenious thinking…