One of the biggest landfill sites in the US is in the process of becoming a nature reserve and a recreation ground. Is this just papering over the cracks, or can our rubbish heaps really turn into something beautiful?
… Can a landfill site ever return to nature? Nick … | 6th July 2010 News Waste And Recycling Landfill Rubbish Freshkills Natural World … freshkillsgasgauge.jpg One of the biggest landfill sites in the US is in the process of …
How one group is restoring the lost lustre of England's fruit orchards, and why a landfill site turned out to be a blessing in disguise
… lustre of England's fruit orchards, and why a landfill site turned out to be a blessing in … also been able to tap into things like the Landfill Community Fund , which has allowed us … the Trust's - and the landscape's - favour. Landfill benefit There are other peculiar …
PHOTO GALLERY: In exclusive images from a brilliant new eco-design book we illustrate innovative ways designers around the world are creating sustainable food packaging, products and appliances...
… NEWS 'Primark effect' still clogging up UK landfills Calls to bring forward ban on recyclable material sent to landfill increase, as reports emerge of big … being dumped HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE The Landfill Prize Top Ten Golf club shaped urinal …
Personal care products contribute some of the largest amounts of waste that end up in landfills.
… the largest amounts of waste that end up in landfills. You’re already familiar with the … as one-third of the refuse that ends up in landfills. Once it’s there, some of that … as one-third of the refuse that ends up in landfills. Once it’s there, some of that …
Convenient, flimsy, costly, cynical, manipulative, wasteful, deadly...we'll never forget the plastic bag
… before the first of these has degraded in its landfill site. Since then, several trillion … at all because of the lack of oxygen in most landfill sites. The UK plastics industry parrots that only one per cent of landfill is due to plastic bags, but this …
Consumers are exasperated with manufacturers that do not make any effort to reduce their packaging.
… are sent for recycling actually end up in a landfill or shipped abroad. Following on from … people worry that a lot of it is heading to landfills or being shipped abroad. "Consumers …
Plastic Pollution Coalition is a new campaign calling for an outright ban on single-use plastic products. Will you support them?
… is 'recycled' or carted out of site to landfills at home or abroad. At the same time … research READ MORE... INVESTIGATION Landfill-on-sea Plastic rubbish gets tossed … its impact on the world's largest floating landfill. HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE 10 campaign …
Madeleine Cuff challenged herself to spend a week reducing her food and packaging waste. Did it work, and will other consumers and supermarkets take note?
… a black bin bag every month and sending it to landfill. Makes you think before casually … tonnes of good food in the UK ends up in landfill every year because it has 'gone off.' …
Twice as expensive as petrol, three times the price of milk, and 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. Is it worth it, and what impact is it having on our environment?
… Supplies Water Sources Plastics Consumerism Landfills Recycling Bottled Water Companies …
Argentinean academic and activist Raul Montenegro on why indigenous people hold the keys to survival, why GM technologies only profit big business and how nuclear power ignores the rights of future generations
… community in closing the second largest landfill of municipal waste in Argentina. KM: …
All too often language is used to objectify nature, writes Caspar Henderson. But there's another, older vocabulary - introduced in this 'counter-desecration phrasebook' - that achieves the reverse: connecting us with the wonders of life and arousing delight in the natural world.
… each other like pieces of rotting crud in landfill, the words may sound like nonsense - …
With 300,000 hectares of forests, fields and steppes damaged by fire, the war in Ukraine has done huge damage to the country's environment, writes Dimiter Kenarov. But there has been an upside: a new green spirit is taking root, and young volunteers are stepping in to protect wild spaces.
… Hora and move it again, this time to a legal landfill. In Ukraine, civic spirit has been …
If the world is to feed a growing population against a backdrop of climate change and biodiversity loss, argues Charles Windsor, we must put a cost on the damage we are causing to soils, water, climate and ecosystems.
… it is quite the reverse. Take the idea of a landfill tax. When a charge has been placed on …
The EU faces a choice: a green, democratic future of clean prosperity and social justice? Or a dirty future of corporate domination with resurgent nuclear power, expanding fossil fuels, GMO agriculture and weak human and environmental protection? Junckers' Commission represents the latter. We must assert our own vision - or there will be little worth staying in for.
… 'circular economy' package to reduce waste to landfill and increase recycling would get …
As the winners of the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards 2013 are unveiled, award founder Charlie Waite takes the opportunity to tell the Ecologist why he believes landscape photography and environmental passion go hand in hand.....
… different part of the brain to one of a vast landfill site or rainforest decimation. The …
As the UK Government's green policies come under sustained attack from Tory and UKIP right-wingers, Lib-Dem Leader Nick Clegg nails his green colours to the mast.
… We're reducing the amount of waste we send to landfill and we're investing in cleaning up …
They're becoming more and more common - wrapped around everything from milk to chickpeas. But just how environmentally friendly are composite cartons compared to the good, old-fashioned tin or jar?
… and recycles tonnes of wood destined for landfills, doing much the same for those it …
A new species of eco-lawyer is emerging from the legal undergrowth. James Thornton advocates a wig-and-gown approach so campaigners can strengthen their case against unethical corporations
… make France close 8,000 illegal landfills or force EU fisheries ministers to …