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Get reedy for the future
Treating waste water is a dirty old business. What’s more, the energy it takes to pump it around our sewage systems makes it a potential contributor to climate change (not to mention higher water bills).
But it could be set to get a lot greener.
Mulch ado about nothing
Last week’s story about Torbay’s solar compacting bin started us thinking about waste and what happens to it. Never afraid to go digging around in rubbish, we found some government statistics showing exactly what we throw away.
Not your usual rubbish
The last celebrity rubbish bin we remember was Ted Roger’s faithful companion, but Torbay council has managed to get itself on BBC News with its trial of a solar-powered, self-compacting bin.
Branson’s biofuel bummer
Oh dear. Sir Richard Branson bought a Saab 9-5 BioPower last year, a sexy green one that runs on 85% bioethanol. Trouble is, there’s nowhere to fill it up in London, so it tends to be filled with unleaded petrol instead.
