How Councils Can Reduce Landfill Waste
Every household, to one degree or another, is acutely aware of the need to recycle. We should all know the difference between a black, blue and brown bin and we should all have noticed the frequency with which recycling is mentioned on TV, online, in schools and in our local communities.
Easter Recycling Tips
We’re all in the same rather heavy boat this week… we’ve eaten chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner but have you thought about what to do with the packaging?
The Future of Solar Energy
The UK’s renewable energy capacity reached its highest peak in quarter 3 of 2016, generating 25% of the UK’s electricity requirement (33.4GW). In just 12 months, the UK has increased its renewable energy capacity by 11.3% (3.4GW) and one third of that renewable energy capacity now comes from Solar PV. Solar energy, between Q3 2015 […]
The House Made Of Plastic
Following our recent post, which highlights the practicalities and benefits of using straw as a building material; we now delve into a similar, yet completely opposite, building material. Plastic. 300,000,000 tons of plastic (three hundred million) are produced every year and we recycle just 8% of it. It’s been predicted that in just 10 years, […]
The House Made of Straw
It may seem as though houses have been built the same for years, if not hundreds of years, with very small changes happening to make them more effective as time goes by. We’ve introduced triple glazing, cavity walls, more efficient insulation and energy efficient heating solutions but there’s one building material that remains unchanged throughout […]
Sustainable Sustainability
In today’s modern age, we hear endless stories of how important sustainability is to the continued development of today’s world. We hear constant tales of how if we continue on our current, unsustainable path, we’ll soon be wiped out in an oxymoronic heat-wave-ice-age-drought with occasional flooding. It’s an undeniable truth that we, as a whole […]
Next Gen Biodegradables
Packaging, especially food packaging, is the key contributor to waste in the world. The average person in the EU discards up to 160kg of packaging waste a year of which, less than 50% is recycled. With over 80kg of each person’s discarded packaging going to landfill each year, it’s clear why some companies are taking […]
Last Chance Tourism
Last chance tourism is the tourism industry that is built around the last chance to see something. It could be the last chance to see wild Rhinoceros in Africa, the last chance to see the Great Barrier Reef or the last chance to see Argentina’s glacier fields. If you knew that before long something would […]
Carbon – What’s next?
Whilst the UK is slowly but surely lowering its dependence on carbon, we’re still not completely weaned off the stuff. The UK released over 7 metric tons of C02 emissions per capita in 2013, down from 11.8 in 1970, but still a long way to go before we reach 0. As a nation, we are […]
5 Things You Didn’t Know You Can’t Recycle
Recycling is one of the most important things that everyday people can do to help lower their carbon footprint, limit landfill growth and protect the environment. The UK has a target to recycle 50% of its waste by the year 2020. It’s currently 2017, and we’re only recycling 44.3%. Growing by just 3.9% in the […]