Inspiring businesses to reuse food that would have otherwise be sent to landfill, the pioneering group FareShare collects and distributes it to homeless shelters: feeding the needy, saving CO2 and diverting waste from landfill
… & Gardening Fareshare Food Waste Homeless Landfill Climate Change … food that would have otherwise be sent to landfill, the pioneering group FareShare … needy, saving CO2 and diverting waste from landfill What has been your most successful …
Do you want the best for your baby, but don’t want to harm the environment? Then use reusable nappies. Contrary to popular belief, modern reusables are cheaper and more hygienic than disposables, and you won't have to spend hours cleaning them.
… 2005 Ethical Living Nappies Diapers Reus Landfill Baby Toddlers Community Waste Nappy … Reusables Reusable Nappies Plastics Children Landfills Recycling Consumerism Green Living … UK every day, around 7.5 million end up in landfill sites. Disposable nappies use three …
Matilda Lee, Green Pages editor, was forced to practice what she preaches when faced with her newborn baby and a pile of cloth nappies
… Living Baby Cloth Nappies Green Lifestyle Landfills Green Living Archive_61.jpg Matilda … for wanting to use cloth nappies – minimise landfill waste, reduce toxic exposure on the … literally, one tonne of nappy waste going to landfill, it seems a very small price to pay. …
One of London's most prestigious hotels has had a green makeover as part of a £220 million refit. Ahead of the official reopening, Matilda Lee gets an exclusive preview of the capital's most environmentally responsible luxury hotel
… 90 per cent of waste will be diverted from landfill, food waste turned into electricity, … to charity rather than leaving it to go to landfill. We didn't have a budget and it was … new system of diverting kitchen waste from landfill ‘is a Godsend', says Debra, and will …
The head of the UK's grassroots anti-incineration network on working towards a zero waste economy, encouraging community engagement and avoiding 'defeatist' language
… resolved by moving away from incineration and landfill and aiming for a zero waste policy, … waste in your community INVESTIGATION Can a landfill site ever return to nature? One of the biggest landfill sites in the US is in the process of …
From plastic bag-free towns to refashioned clothes and bus fleets run on chip fat, here's a guide to what you can do to tackle waste in your community
… With the aim of keeping reusable items out of landfill, Freecycle enables users to pass on … READ MORE... HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE The Landfill Prize Top Ten Golf club shaped urinal …
There are plenty of ways to keep your wardrobe fresh without having to hit the high street. Hannah Corr reveals a few tips on making the most of what you've got
… average person sends 30kg of old clothes to landfill every year where they slowly start to … clothes needn’t spend their final days in landfill either. Patch them up with …
‘Recycling since 1997’ reads its motto. This year, two tonnes of fashion waste was diverted from landfill and into the funky, fresh designs of the From Somewhere label.
… two tonnes of fashion waste was diverted from landfill and into the funky, fresh designs of …
Unravelling a garment’s green credentials isn’t easy, says Matilda Lee. Instead of fretting about what not to wear there’s a few simple things we can do (that could save money too)
… About two-thirds of our cast-offs are sent to landfill, making clothing the fastest growing … select committee found that textile waste at landfill sites rose from seven to 30 per cent …
Contrary to popular belief, composting is simple. What’s more, it’s also eco-friendly, cheap and utterly addictive. Hannah Corr shows you how to get started
… the amount of household waste ending up landfill. Composting also gives you a constant …
Food aid charities argue supermarket food waste could help prevent hunger in vulnerable people. Yet supermarkets' anaerobic digestion plans may eclipse food redistribution says Matilda Lee
… recently, most of this waste was sent to landfill, but food distribution charities are …
The iconic, compact fluorescent lightbulb is dead: meet its next generation replacements that are brighter, more efficient, longer-lasting, and mercury-free
… - rendering it dangerous to dispose of in landfill , or in need of special recycling, …
… fleeces have directed 86 million bottles from landfill. Marks & Spencer launched its own … Imagine 220 million black bin bags sent to landfill and you get an idea of why we should …
The founder of the carbon reduction charity Global Action Plan on past failures, launching the UK's first on-line carbon calculator and why we must work with the corporate sector to create change
… prevent over 2,500 tonnes of clothes going to landfill sites and has raised an extra …
The pioneers behind Apple Day - Sue Clifford & Angela King of Common Ground - have recently published a handbook on community-owned fruit orchards. Here they give the Ecologist their top tips and advice on getting started
… lustre of England's fruit orchards, and why a landfill site turned out to be a blessing in …
Oysters need a thriving natural eco-system and ultra clean water to survive. And as Matilda Lee discovered on a visit to Loch Fyne Oysters, they even find their own food. So are oysters the green choice?
… for water, electricity, diesel and waste to landfill reduction. ‘We are looking at zero …