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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

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 Was

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 ga

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 c

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 – f

Have a look at this excellent graphic from Edwardes Bros, electrical goods wholesailers.

French design studio Faltazi has developed a plug-in funnel to upcycle urine and bring an eco message to summer festivals – Guardian article here

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

Some advice from the Guardian on the shelf life of cheese!