Waste and Recycling: 75/100 of 113
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Designing out waste means rethinking the system
Steve Evans
8th September, 2009
Design is everywhere, deciding how things look, how they work and how systems run. But effective ecodesign is difficult when decisions are made in isolation, says Steve Evans more...
Councils accused of ignoring biogas
Ecologist
7th August, 2009
Find out if your council is about to waste your waste in favour of incinerators with our interactive map more...
Biogas: is your council about to waste your waste?
David Strahan
4th August, 2009
Biogas - a methane-rich fuel made from rotting food waste or sewage - has huge potential as a clean, green fuel for the UK. But a perverse web of subsidies, rules and contracts could mean UK councils are about to kiss goodbye to the real power of waste... more...
Hewlett-Packard = Hazardous Products, says Greenpeace
The US company has been singled out for its failure to remove dangerous chemicals from computers more...
Reusable packaging in the UK: cost the major factor
Eifion Rees
29th June, 2009
When it comes to reusable packaging and the environment, consumers are keen to do the right thing, but it seems sparking a refill revolution in Great Britain means getting the price right first more...
Visionaries: William McDonough
Ecologist
1st April 2009
William McDonough highlights the wastefulness and environmental impacts of modern design and manufacturing and proposes a whole rethink of the process.more...
Sweeteners to track waste water flows
Ecologist
1st July, 2009
Researchers may soon be using artificial sweeteners to track the path waste water takes. more...
Sustainable cities- rethinking sustainable building
Pat Thomas
1st June, 2009
Sustainability consultant Dr David Strong tells Pat Thomas why the way we think about sustainable building needs to be demolished and rebuiltmore...
Fire resistant: 'Why I went to jail to protect my daughter from toxic polluters'
Terri Swearingen
1st December, 2004
How far would you go to fight plans for a new waste incinerator? One woman went all the way... more...
Call for Tennessee fly ash clean up
Ecologist
1st March, 2009
A catastrophic spill of fly ash has renewed calls for the waste to be reclassified. more...
MP Alan Whitehead proposes a bill to see more recycled resources used in new products
News
15th April, 2009
Many dutiful recyclers feel rightly frustrated that so few of their carefully washed bottles and cans put out each week seem to make their way back into the same product. more...
Composting under fire
Anne Barr
28th March, 2009
Next time you grumble that it's too much effort to seperate you plastic from your cans, imagine doing it as the bullets are flying over head more...
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Oxfordshire beauty spot saved from becoming a waste coal ash dump
Ecologist
21st January, 2009
It has been a long and bitter struggle. When locals who had for years enjoyed the peace and tranquillity of Thrupp lake at Radley, Oxfordshire, learned that it was to be filled with fly-ash from Didcot power station, they assumed that a small but vocal protest would help see off the plans. more...
Californian Ocean Protection Council calls for a state-wide ban on Styrofoam packaging
Ecologist
16th January, 2009
Little angers environmentalists more than receiving food or products in Styrofoam packaging, and now the Californian Ocean Protection Council has called for a blanket ban on the use of the material in food containers across California. more...
Poison Fire Interview
Phil Moore
11th September, 2008
Filmmaker Lars Johansson talks to the Ecologist about the making of the film 'Poison Fire' and the curse of oil in the Niger Delta. more...
Poison Fire
Phil Moore
4th September, 2008
Environmentalists arrested at community meeting on gas flaring more...
Waste management proves a profitable business
Martin O'Brien
7th August, 2008
Martin O'Brien investigates how waste management has become a lucrative business. more...
The scandal of planned technological obsolescence
Nick Kettles
6th August, 2008
Our economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, the that we seek our spiritual satisfaction in consumption… more...
Salton Sea: desolation in the desert
Manuela Hübner
1st July, 2008
A sobering, disturbing yet humorous look at the journey of a holiday resort 50 miles south of Palm Springs from utopia to apocalypse. more...A green valentines day
Tess Andrews
7th February, 2008
Every year we’re landfilling or incinerating 200 million non-recycled, mass produced, unromantic valentine cards. So this year we should all make more of an effort to keep our romance and the planet alive. more...
Figures expose UK’s recycling gap
News
23rd November, 2007
Rates of recycling in England and Wales differ markedly from region to region, with some city areas faring particularly badly, according to new figures. more...
Burying The Truth
Jon Hughes & Pat Thomas
11th October, 2007
What does Douglas Gowan know that everyone else wants to keep hidden? For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed...more...
Incinerators: the lethal consequences of breathing fire
Pat Thomas
6th September, 2007
Despite the best efforts of the industry to rebrand and clean up incineration, the fact remains that today's incinerators still permit pollution. more...
'One-box' recycling doing more harm than good
News
7th August, 2007
Throwing all your recycling in one box may seem like a good idea, but it is threatening the future of European-based paper recycling, according to a leading industry source. more...Supermarkets could be forced to collect packaging
News
19th June, 2007
A private member's bill that would see supermarkets and other retailers forced to take responsibility for the packaging on their goods has been debated in the Commons. more...Members
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