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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 [...]
Ways to stop wasting food
Ok, everyone - the game’s up. Headmaster has spoken. We’ve all got to stop wasting food. No more tipping it into the houseplants or popping it into your trouser pockets. Everybody’s got to eat up.
Tagged and bagelled
This week we’re asking how much packaging we need with our lunch. The sun’s out again, so today’s repast (from a favourite local chain) was eaten in a park – hence the empty packaging you see here.
Lunch in the bag
Whether you use an unbleached hemp shopping bag, or gleefully fill up a bunch of single-use carriers, the chances are you’ll struggle to keep up with the supermarket cashier. Personally, I’m yet to work out whether they’re trying to bleep quicker than I pack, or if I just have a persecution complex.
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 [...]
Doing your (p)art
It sounds obvious, but one of the best ways to deal with rubbish is to not create it in the first place. Sadly, until retailers pull their fingers out and cut down on the amount of free junk that comes with much of what we buy, we’re stuck with piles of stuff to recycle.
Nappies: don’t be rash
Recent cold snap notwithstanding, it looks like spring has finally sprung – daffodils are out in force, bunny rabbits are lolloping about, and puffins, guillemots, kittiwakes and razorbills have returned to our cliff tops.
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
Rubbish statistics? Sadly not
Last week, the Guardian printed some photos by the American photographic artist Chris Jordan. The images from Chris’ “Intolerable Beauty: portraits of American mass consumption” series aim to help us visualise statistics that measure consumer waste and the effects of human activity.
