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.
… used in new products 15th April 2009 News Recycling Alan Whitehead MP Recycling UK Campaigns Recycling Green Living Politics And Economics …
Plastics are the green topic du jour. LOUISE DAVIES asks what the vegan movement can learn from plastic-free campaigners
… environments for foods and medical products. Recycling systems But in the mid-1970s the … plastics. The industry responded by adding a recycling logo to their products and some recycling systems were implemented, but little …
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.
… EPR Campaigns Fast Food US Plastics Recycling Packaging Recycling Pollution Waste And Recycling News web pic 2_2.jpg Little angers …
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.
… Agribusiness Campaigns Green Living Waste And Recycling Every year we’re landfilling or …
Npower, owner of the UK's third largest coal-fired power station, says it will have to black out two million customers if it can't fill this lake with poisonous ash. Paul Kingsnorth investigates
Still Waters Run Deep Paul Kingsnorth | 1st November 2006 News Pollution Npower PFA Campaigns Industrial Community Climate Change Energy STILLWATERS_NOV06_MAIN.jpg Npower, owner of the UK's third …
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act.
… and burning them. Formosa said: ‘This is recycling, not waste release.’ I went and dug … from the state telling Formosa, ‘This isn’t recycling. You need to report these numbers.’ …
Ethical consumerism in the UK is currently worth £29.3 billion, yet 60 per cent of us feel we don't have enough information to make an ethical decision. There is an ever-growing array of eco labels, but what do they tell us? Or fail to tell us? Pat Thomas explains
Leeds University is the first in the UK to ban the sale of bottled water on campus. Will other universities follow suit? Sophie Haydock reports
Banning bottled water in universities Sophie Haydock | 11th August 2009 Activism Take Action Campaigns Bottled Water Student Union Leeds University bottledwater.jpg Leeds University is the first in …
From chasing endangered parrots to hunting for the environmental holy grail with Friends of the Earth, one of Britain's pre-eminent eco campaigners wants to take his quest for a better, greener world to the halls of Westminster.
Dixe Wills meets a man on a mission
… victories in roadbuilding, toxic pollution, recycling and—in his very first FoE …
Responses from some of the key players to the Ecologist's investigation into fish feed.
Ecologist Film Unit: Feed for Greed The Ecologist | 4th December 2008 News Marine Ecologist Film Unit Fish Fish Feed Investigates Campaigns Natural World Food And Farming Health Pollution …
It’s fresh, organic and locally produced. It’s hospital food, but not as we know it – yet. Dixe Wills meets the catering manager who’s transforming the canteen kitchen
CASE STUDY: getting good, local food into hospitals Dixe Wills | 22nd January 2009 Activism Food And Gardening Case Study Hospital Organic Catering Kitchen Campaigns Organics Locall_Hero_NOV_MAIN.jpg …
From Catalonia in the South, through the Ariège and Béarn, to the Basque country in the North, both locals and tourists are used to seeing Nationalist slogans daubed in white paint on Pyrenean mountain roads. But now a new clarion call is vying for their attention: Non Ours (no bears) and Mort aux Ours (death to the bears.)
Bad news, bears Nick Kettles | 1st March 2008 News Bears Godless Killing Machines France Conservationism Franska Campaigns Conservation Campaigns Animal Rights Species Extinction Conservation Natural …