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How to get the most out of Freecycle
This weekend I successfully Freecycled something. And it felt good. But it’s taken six months and around 5,000 emails to get there. There’s definitely an art to Freecycling - it takes time, practice and patience.
Victory over waste
Every time you grumble about having to sift through your rubbish to separate out the recyclable from the irredeemable, spare a thought for the residents of Kamikatsu in Japan.
This is a small community with big ideas on waste - to such an extent that the local council has eradicated it altogether. Instead of collections of [...]
A load of scrap
If you’ve ever been for a bracing countryside walk only to be brought up short by the sight of an abandoned vehicle, you’ll know how important it is for cars to be properly scrapped and recycled. In fact, seven years ago the government was so concerned about an estimated 340,000 illegally dumped cars each year, [...]
Get paid to recycle
When we wrote yesterday about looking West for recycling inspiration, we weren’t anticipating crossing the Atlantic - only the Irish Sea.
Life after landfill: look West?
Defra today awarded Private Finance Initiative (PFI) credits to four waste management projects across the UK to help improve our country’s shameful landfill record.
The UK has one of the highest levels of landfill in Europe, with 60% of 35.5million tonnes of municipal waste being swept under the soil in 2006.
Defra hopes the PFI credits awarded [...]
Top 5 recycling sites
Now, this could have been a post about the best household recycling sites in the UK.
Perhaps there’s room for an Oscar The Grouch-style awards ceremony for that?
Have a very merry green Christmas – send e-cards
***Our updated list of Christmas e-card sites for 2008 is now published. Click here.***
It’s not quite what Bing Crosby was dreaming of, but Edinburgh Council has urged residents to have a green Christmas this year.
History repeating itself: 25 more years of car waste
The next 25 years will see more cars built than in the whole of the motor industry’s history thus far.
That’s the sobering prediction made by Oxford Brookes University, which has warned that recycling levels will have to drastically improve to meet the environmental challenges of the next quarter century.
The nine-year ditch
We were a bit worried to read this week that the UK might run out of landfill space within nine years. The claim accompanied statistics released on Monday by the Local Government Association, which show that the UK sends more rubbish to landfill than any other EU country
Spike in junk mail creates art
A Tyneside artist has put her unwanted post to a novel use, by creating a sculpture in her garden with all her hand-delivered junk mail.
